I miss you already I don’t need to leave. I can stay. . . . Mmmm.

For some reason, my temper was hardwired to my tear ducts. I usually cried when I was angry, a humiliating tendency.

When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all that, not knowing it wasn't my reading level.

i'm in love with you, Bella

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger

It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.

My life and his were twisted into a single strand. Cut one, and you cut both. If he were gone, I would not be able to live through that. If I were gone, he wouldn't live through it, either.