I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

Being a star requires risk-taking shoes.

If you were dead," Owen told her, "you'd have bigger problems than what you were wearing.

Fall in love with someone who truly deserves your heart. Not with someone who plays with it.

If there was a way to recognize something you'd never seen but still knew by heart, I felt it as I looked at his face. Finally, someone understood.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.