It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your m… - Sarah Dessen

The past did affect the present and the future, in ways you could see and a million ones you couldn't. Time wasn't a thing you could divide easily; there was no defined middle or beginning or end. I could pretend to leave the past behind, but it would not leave me.

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

I just thought to my self, all of a sudden, that we had something in common. A natural chemistry, if you will. And I had a feeling that something big was going to happen. To both of us. That we were, in fact, meant to be together.