But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

Who says there has to be a point?" He asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

And like my dad always said, the first step is always the hardest.

Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.

This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.