It's only advice. Ignore it if you want.
If nothing else, now we knew where to find each other, even if only time would tell if either of us would ever come looking.
As if at the age of eighteen life already sucked beyond any hope of improvement.
It's nice to have options even if you can't take them.
Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.
It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.
That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own.
If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.
When you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well.
I wondered if he ever thought of me, and hated the pang I felt when I told myself he didn't.
...You can't unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.
It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.
You're not supposed to have it all figured out in high school. If you knew it all, and it was the best, it's all downhill from there.
It's still a memory worth having, even if it's not exactly what you imagined.
I waited. Because with Eli, he was never trying to get you to finish for him. He always knew where he was going, even if it took a little while to get there.
Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.
I always say that teenagers are the first to know if you're pandering to them.
I always have a goal, even if I keep it to myself. It allows me to keep pushing myself.