Instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our own to ourselves, as always.

I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

What did it feel like, I wondered, to love someone that much? So much that you couldn't even control yourself when they came close, as if you might just break free of whatever was holding you and throw yourself at them with enough force to easily overwhelm you both.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

Lifestyle is an terrible, unpleasant put to not have a very finest buddy.

Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.