When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline i... - Sarah Dessen

"Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself."

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong."

"It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities. Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening."

"Too many locks, not enough keys."

"After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to."