Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

His father's made us paint half this town and if we stick around any longer he'll make us paint the rest of it." -Jonah Griggs

She gently placed his hand against the beating pulse of her heart. Always, always it beat out of control, and he held his hand to it until he felt it perfectly match his.

My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn’t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you’ll sense there’s an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.

If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.

Do you want to hang out? At your place or something?" Hanging out with Jimmy Hailler will mean that I have to say hello to him every day. I'm not ready to say hello to him every day. Too much commitment. It's bad enough that I'm sharing chocolate brownies swith him. I shake my head. "Not today.

A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is.