If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't? - Jodi Picoult

You know how every now and then, you have a moment where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road, and even as you choose one gritty path you've got your eyes on the other the whole time, certain that you're making a mistake.

He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.