I couldn't tell her. I couldn't tell anyone. As long as I didn't say it aloud, it wasn't real. - Sarah Dessen

The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affect your life, even who you are, forever.

Like a blinking cursor on an empty page, it was just the first thing. The beginning of the beginning. But at least it was done.

All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.