If anyone had been paying attention to the signs, they would have realized that air turns white when things are about to change, that paper cuts mean there's more to what's written on the page than meets the eye, and that birds are always out to protect you from things you don't see.

I spent so much time telling myself that this wasn't home that I started to believe it," she said carefully. "Belonging has always been tough for me." I can be your home," he said quietly. "Belong to me.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

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

Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.

Children always know when their mothers are crazy - they just never admit it, not out loud, to anyone.

Not every man was sorry when he hurt a woman.