I would miss Colby, but it wasn't going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not to be assertive. And that, in turn, then leads to low self-esteem, which can lead to eating disorders and increased tolerance and acceptance of domestic, sexual, and substance abuse." "You get all that from a pink Onesie?" Leah said after a moment.

If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.

But I think, personally, that it would be worse to have been alone all that time. Sure, maybe I would have protected my heart from some things, but would that really have been better? To hold myself apart because I was too scared that something might no be forever?