Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.

Don't let anyone tell you that high school is supposed to be fun. High school is to be endured. College is fun.

Mike's eyes narrowed shrewdly. "Don't kid yourself, Bella. The guy's head over heels for you." "I know," I sighed. "Life is complicated." "And girls are cruel," Mike said under his breath.

And it was different because I'd already lost her so many times, so many ways, in my head. And different because she was never really mine to lose. And different because this wasn't my fault.

You scared me for a minute there. I thought Newton was dragging your dead body off to bury it in the woods.

I have to step out for a second. Don’t do anything funny while I’m gone.

I used to dream about him all the time," Sunny whispered to me. "Every night. I kept hoping the Seekers would find him; I missed him so much...When I saw him, I thought it was the old dream again.