'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
Sarah DessenIt was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.
Sarah DessenYou 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.
Sarah DessenAs Isabel acted out her date, both of them laughing, I stayed in the kitchen, out of sight, and pretended she was telling me, too. And that, for once, I was part of this hidden language of laughter and silliness and girls that was, somehow, friendship.
Sarah Dessen