I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

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

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are.

I 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.

Because' I repeated, as a breeze blew over us, "sometimes things just happen. That aren't expected. Or on the list." "Such as?" he asked "I don't know," I said, frustrated. "That's the point. It would be out of the blue, taking us by surprise. Something we might not be prepared for." "But we will be prepared," he said, confused. "We'll have the list.