You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your… — Sarah Dessen

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop.

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.

I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous...