There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.

It's not the loving that hurts this girl; it's the understanding of it for what it is, that it will never be returned in the same way, that threatens to destroy her. But to unload the words - "I love you" - on an innocent party who didn't ask for it, to reach across the dark space and touch him - it's like the world she knows could end if she dared speak these words, dared make such a move.

She doesn't want the boy causing the distinction between "love" and "in love

Males are the most incomprehensible species.

Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.

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.

There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.