There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.

When is the night over? Is it the start of sunrise or the end of it? Is it when you finally go to sleep or simply when you realize that you have to?

There. I've said everything I wanted to say without actually having to use the words "please stay

So he's worth a second shot? The more apt question, my dear, is: are you?

Teenage boys cannot be trusted. Their intentions are not pure.

Why do you lie" I ask her. "To block the truth." Fair enough. Naomi goes on. "Where did we get it in our heads that we need truth all the time? Sometimes lies are nice, you know? You don't have to know the truth all the time. It's too exhausting.