It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

Life isn't fair," Owen told her. "Get used to it.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.

I wanted to be somewhere else ... Someplace where the sight of me sobbing would tie me to no one and no one to me.

Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.

Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.