I understood now. This voice, the one that had been trying to get my attention all this time, calling out to me, begging me to hear it - it wasn't Will's. It was mine.
Sarah DessenHe doesnโt love me. He might still love me as I was at fifteen, when I didnโt know any better. When I trusted everyone. Iโm not that person any more. Heโs just a boy. He was the first to really hurt me, but heโs just a boy. There were a lot of them.
Sarah DessenAnd no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.
Sarah DessenWhen I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
Sarah DessenI walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.
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