there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one

maybe i'm exacly where i should be after all.

Tonight I want to stand on the side of a cliff and look down, dare the wind to gust and knock me off. Everyone thinks that falling to your death is the worst thing that can happen. But that’s a lie. The worst thing is to be alive for no reason.

A word of advice, though. This won't be the last time you have to deal with something in life that throws you off your game. In future courses, as well as in the real world--such as it is--professors and employers won't always be accommodating. We all have to--what's my daughter's terminology--suck it up and deal?

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

He brushed my tears from my face. "How did I find you?

I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.