Amanda Howells

The surest way to hurt yourself is to give up on love, just because it didn__work out the first time.

You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there.

You can only take steps toward the future you want. It's not guaranteed to be there. This is why you have to live inside each beautiful or terrible thing as it happens to you because the present may be all you've got. And if there's more ahead then the present is where you can really shape your future.

In those moments it's hard to remember that an angry voice is an invisible thing incapable of drawing blood.

The rest of the girls out there are just shooting stars," Simon whispered into my ear. "They're on a crash course to nowhere. But you, my lady friend, you're a black hole. You've sucked me in, and now there's no escape

But it was not the note that counted so much as the writing of it.Just because it wouldn__ last forever out there didn__ mean it hadn__existed. that__ why I was there. I was there for a moment. Andbecause of a string of beautiful moments spent at that very sameplace, moments I would keep inside me wherever I went.