You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is always the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

If this was my instinct talking, I didn‟t want to hear what it was saying.

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.

It passed, though. That was the bad thing. It always passed.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Because it is so hard, in any life, to believe in what you can’t fully understand.

And don't change for a guy, ever," Leah added. "If they're worthy, they'll like you just the way you are.