Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

That's how I always want to remember my time with you. Like a pure white light, breathtaking to behold.

Grown-ups always say that things are complicated.

It made perfect sense, and at the same time nothing seemed to.

I think that setting a novel in a small town taps into a sense of nostalgia among readers. People tend to believe life is different in small towns, and frankly, it is different.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.