Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

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.

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.

but accepting help doesn‟t have to mean giving up control.

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?

You should have seen your face," she said, her breath hot in my ear. "Sa-woooon.