Life's too short to worry about the little things. Enjoy what you have today, not what you might get tomorrow

As far as I was concerned, we'd come to a draw: I hadn't wanted to come, and she didn't want me to leave. We were even. But I knew my mother wouldn't see it that way. Lately, we didn't seem to see anything the same.

I'd chosen instead to just change my route, go miles out of the way, as if avoiding it would make it go away once and for all.

You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

The world is speaking to you every day, you just don't know how to listen.