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.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.

You didn't fail. You just opted out. There's a difference.

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.

Whenever something great happens, you’re always kind of poised for the universe to correct itself.

Events conspired to bring you back to where you'd been. It was what you did then that made all the difference: it was all about potential.

She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.