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

My head's filled up with all the reasons it won't work. And I keep running the figures, over and over, but I can't seem to come up with an answer.

If you're lucky, the friends you make when you're sixteen stay with you for the rest of your life. If you're smart, you know when it's time to let them go.

I've done my best to drive you away, Sadie," he said suddenly. "But you've never left me.

This is the truth. I have been in love. I have been in lust. I’ve made good choices and bad ones, I have been smart and I’ve been stupid. But I have never in my life felt the way I do now, here, with Will.

It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.

If you want to know how someone really feels, you almost never have to ask.