true love is felonious… You take someone’s breath away… You rob them of the ability to utter a single word… You steal a heart. - Jodi Picoult

All teenagers knew this was true. The process of growing up was nothing more than figuring out what doors hadn't yet been slammed in your face. For years, parents tell you that you can be anything, have anything, do anything. That was why she'd been so eager to grow up-until she got to adolescence and hit a big fat wall ofreality. As it turned out, she couldn't have anything she wanted. You didn't get to be pretty or smart or popular just because you wanted it. You didn't control your own destiny, you were too busy trying to fit in.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

Love meant jumping off a cliff and trusting that a certain person would be there to catch you at the bottom.