Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.

Get back on that bike.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.