Baby, you’ve got enough strength and tenacity to takedown drug dealers. You’ll be fine.

Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?

The darkness isn’t so frightening with Ryan. With him I can believe that I am a princess with a wreath of flowers and ribbons crowning my head and he is my prince sworn to protect...

Normal. She wanted normal and so did I. “You know what’s normal?””What?” She wiped away her remaining tears. “Calculus.

There are edges around the black and every now and then a flash of color streaks out of the gray. But I can never really grasp any of the slivers of memories that emerge.

Do you think we can just take it on faith right now that I want you, you want me, and we’ll figure out the happy ending part later?

This overwhelming, encompassing feeling is love. It’s not perfect and it’s messy as hell. And it’s exactly what I need.

Tell me, Haley. Please tell me it does because this means something to me.

I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.

You can ignore me, Rachel, and you can try to treat me as a friend, but none of that will erase the fact that I think about kissing you every second I’m awake and dream...

Her tactics are brutal. The Marines could employ her.

Echo is my life. My life. I lover her. If there’s a chance I can make her happy… If I can save what’s between us… I’ll do it, so fucking tell me!

It’s an innocent kiss at first. Soft lips meeting; a gentle pressure that creates a slow burn. The type of kiss you give to someone that means something. This isn’t the type of kiss to...

Nothing makes you think you might need years of therapy like saying the word breasts in front of your mother.