All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'

And I felt comfort. Finally. All I'd wanted for so long was for someone to explain everything that had happened to me in this same way. To label it neatly on a page: this leads to this leads to this. I knew, deep down, it was more complicated than that, but watching Jason, I was hopeful. He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I had to wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. So I moved myself closer to him, and I'd been there ever since.

I wasn't very happy in high school: it was a confusing and sort of sad time for me.

Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

Life has a way of disregarding even your best intentions.