#bhie

"As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong."

"Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out."

"I gave you my heart, but it wasn't enough."

"Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines."

"Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want."

"...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment."

"As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist."

"I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same."

"The room fell quiet. And as I read down the list of over one hundred and fifty eight-grade boys, I realized that to me, there had only ever been one boy."