Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words. - Sarah Dessen

She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.