Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.

I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.

There's a kind of radar that you get, after years of being talked about and made fun of by other people. You can almost smell it when it's about to happen, can recognize instantly the sound of a hushed voice, lowered just enough to make whatever is said okay. I had only been in Colby for a few weeks. But I had not forgotten.

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

But against love, the case was solid. Easily argued. And you could, indeed, hold it in your hand.

I am not breaking my rules,' I snapped, hating that I'd ended up on the advice-recieving end of things, jumping from Dear Remy to Confused in Cincinnati all in one summer.