It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

It wasn't like I was some expert on the meaning of being supportive. Was it being loyal even against your better judgement? Or, like Olivia, was it making your displeasure known from the start, even when someone didn't want to hear it?

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.

The health of the people I love is all that really matters in this world. Period.

Then what are you like, Annabel?" he shot back. "A liar, like you told me that first day? Come on. That was the biggest lie of all.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it