Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging

I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that's true of beginnings, but it's not true of this, now.

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

Everything inside me screams for just one more kiss, one more word, one more glance, one more.

Since he saved me from the attack, I have associated his smell with safety, so as long as I focus on it, I feel safe now.

"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.