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You deserve more than just being our safety net

While you__e alive there__ no time for minor amazements.

That's how it is with a thing like grief as well. It lies oil slick over everything you do. It will pour out through the gaps in the most ordinary afternoons.

As for learning to wear high heels, no need to worry. I've got no tolerance for those dreadful things. If God wanted us girls tottering around like a bunch of drunken sailors, we'd have been born wearing stilts!

Turns out, most girls would rather put on lip gloss than play with sand toads.

You were as much in prison as anyone I knew there, Colin. Only you created it for yourself. Your father paced out the cell and your brothers fit the bars and you turned the key in the lock and buried it somewhere only you know. And you stared at Daniel through the bars and cursed him for being able to walk out the door. But he__ not the one who did something wrong. All he did was save himself. And you can too. But you have to find that key and unlock the door.

Callie, I feel like we__e got something amazing. Something that__ going to last. I look at you , and I see my future. But it__ almost like we take two steps forward and four back, every time. You let me in a little, and then you push me away. I just need you to know that I__l wait. I__l be here for whatever you need, whenever. Just don__ shut me out, baby. Please.

Grief's not like a cancer, doesn't go when the operation's done and the darkness is out. It's a knife wound. Take out the blade and you still go the bleeding, wait long enough, and it turns to a scar, but it's always with you the rest of your life.

One thing a death will do is make you reflect on how many kinds of love there are to be experienced in the world.

You know all the ways you can kill a girl?God, there are so many.

Some guys get fifteen years, others get life.So death for Edbut not for everyone.Cos it all depends on who you kill and where you kill them too.Like,don't shoot a white cop in Walker Country, Texas. If that's your plan, do it in Arlington, New York- no needles of electric chairs there.Just doesn't seen fair to me.

P.S. Please don't call me Isabella. That name belongs to a really pretty girl who never wrecks her clothes and who never gets dirt under her fingernails. That's definitely not me. My name is Izzy.

The almost biological certainty that the more often you checked your cell phone, the more likely you were to find that one wondrous message or notification that would improve your entire life.

Every bar in the scores of ourselves is already into memory into imagination, even as we play it out. We might as well listen.

Words are a weapon, and rotten kids like Tyler Jones get a free pass when it comes to using them because the marks they leave are invisible. Why don't more adults realize that?

She'd been hired to protect him. But he'd come to a place where he'd do anything, give anything, risk anything to protect her.

His words made me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt.

Some people just don__ find their Prince Charming straight away, they have to search for him.