To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.

Misfits need a place to get away, too. All that trying to fit in is exhausting.

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

Those who decided to stick with her would be her true friends. The others would just be scenery.

Your peers when you're a teenager will always be the keepers of your embarrassment and regret. It was one of life's great injustices, that you can move on and be accomplished and happy, but the moment you see someone from high school you immediately become the person you were then, not the person you are now.