Some men you know are Southern before they ever say a word," Julia said as she and Emily watched Sawyer's progress, helpless, almost as if they couldn't look away. "They remind you of something good--picnics or carrying sparklers around at night. Southern men will hold doors open for you, they'll hold you after you yell at them, and they'll hold on to their pride no matter what. Be careful what they tell you, though. They have a way of making you believe anything, because they say it that way.

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

After you finish a book, the story still goes on in your mind. You can never change the beginning. But you can always change the end.

Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

Safe is just another word for scared.