But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.” “You don’t have to assume the worst about everyone, either. The world isn’t always out to get you.

It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder ― or impossible ― to lose.

Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.

It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.

Conciseness is underrated

That's the thing about someone who rarely gets upset: when they do, you notice.

If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.