Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existance. - Sarah Dessen

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.

It was amazing how you could get so far from where you'd planned, and yet find it was exactly were you needed to be.

She was just a shell of her former self, functioning and talking but hardly alive.