I looked at the sweatshirt again. "'You swim' is a philosophy?" He shrugged. "Better than 'you sink', right?

Some things don't last forever, but some things do.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

I was actually kind of a hot mess in high school. I did a lot of things in high school I'm not proud of. I wasn't a good student and I wasn't particularly a good daughter. I wasn't very engaged.

I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.