We all get discouraged from time to time...just when you think it's time to throw in the towel it's a pretty good sign you're closer to the end game than you think!

Kendra was on Gabriel like a predator on a slab of meat.

A sea of people in red crowded around it. I looked atMallory’s black hoodie and my gray sweater and realized we’d forgotten to wear the school colors. Oh, well. There was always my hair.

I hate procrastinating, so much so that I often do my homework on Friday so it won’t be hanging over my head all weekend long. The goodthing is, my (nonexistent) social life doesn’t usually interfere with this quirk of mine.

He was never one to care whether a person was popular or not. Exhibit A … me.

Perry would disown me for wearing a Yankees sweatshirt, but he would never know, and I was too cold to care about team loyalty.

She’d probably slap me upside the head and say some variation of 'Hey, Future Clare, wtf?

MY MOUTH OPENED.Way to go, Clare. Way to impress the mother of a prospective boyfriend. Moms love their boys to date psycho overprotective girls.

blown into my life like a hurricane, turned me upside down, challengedme at every turn. And, together, we sparked like lightning.

This wasn’t the time or place for it, so I hid it away in a little drawer in the back of my mind,marked DEAL WITH LATER.