Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you.

For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

It was like she was MADE of cake, light and pretty and decorated on the outside-with her sweet laugh and pink streak to her hair-but it was anyone's guess what was on the inside.

I think Heaven will be like a first kiss.

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being.

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.