But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

There's nothing that says you can't change." "Not even if it changes everything else?" I shook my head. "Not even then.

He put my fingertips to his mouth and kissed them. Licked the trace of blood away. Made them clean. Then I knew the truth I had been denying. He made me clean. Dan made me clean and shining and bright. He made me beautiful, and I did not want to lose him.

You know what they say. Best revenge is looking good, right?

I know everything and nothing about him all at the same time.

I had no words to give him. No explanation. I didn’t understand it, myself. It scared me, but then so do roller coasters, and I ride them anyway, too.

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.