I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

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

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. But standing there alone on the landing, I thought of Grandma Halley and how she'd held me close against her lap as we watched the sky together. I'd always thought I couldn't remember, but suddenly in that moment, I closed my eyes and saw the comet, finally, brilliant and impossible, stretching above me across the sky.

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

The true story...is the realization that no time in your life is ever perfect, that even the best memories have cracks you might not see.

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.

And while it is hard enough to take away something that makes a person happy it's even more difficult when it seems like it's the only thing.