There's nothing like a head-strong woman to make you happy to be alive. - Wendelin Van Draanen

I'd never looked at our house, or even our side of the street, and said, Oh! I wish we lived in the new development—those houses are so much newer, so much better! This is where I'd grown up. This was my home.

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.

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.