Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end.

It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.

It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.

Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are those the only options?' Not always. Just sometimes.