She was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free but still got treated like a rented mule.

I thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known.

I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.

I don’t think much about guys from the past. I’m glad I knew them, but there’s a reason they didn’t make it into my future.

I looked into Blake's eyes, remembering my lost marble and thinking that even though it was gone forever, there could be another match out there. There might be another guy who would kiss my forehead, a guy who was just as sweet as strong enough to choose me over everybody else

And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places.