I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.

Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.

But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool," I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, "It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means?" "The apocalypse?

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

But anyone can begin. It was the part with all the promise, the potential, the things I loved. More and more, though, I was finding myself wanting to find out what happened in the end.

It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.