I’d skipped the crush kiddie pool and jumped right into the deep, shark infested ocean of emotions.

Why did that jackass have to sit next to me?

Sometimes it’s okay to believe things that aren’t true. Sometimes it’s necessary.

He sleeps with everything that moves, and his brain is located in his pants – which means it’s microscopic.

I cleared my throat and tried to look like I wasn’t inwardly slapping myself.

The more my world spun, the more appealing he became. Don’t get me wrong, I still hated him with a passion. His arrogance made me want to scream, but his ability to free me – if only temporarily – from my problems left me high. He was my drug.

She wrote a self-esteem book.

The winter sky has already turned black, but I could still see Wesley’s gray eyes in the darkness. They were exactly the color of the sky before a thunderstorm.

Amy and I needed each other. Neither of us really had other close friends. We were the type who were friendly with everyone... I think most people felt sort of left out when they spent time with Amy and me. There was too much history, too many inside jokes, and, yeah, maybe our closeness was a little bit weird to some.

The word was ours now, and as long as we held on to it, we could control the hurt it inflicted.