All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

There's nothing like a headstrong woman to make you happy to be alive.

I am a runner. That's what I do. That's who I am. Running is all I know, or want, or care about.

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.

Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know. Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.