teen

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on from someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.

I think parks like these are the best places to people-watch. The diversity of people here is really cool and, again I find myself wondering what they're doing and why they're here and who they're with. I'm far too curious for my own good.

It__ up to you to make your dreams real.

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours?

I don't know what being in love with someone is supposed to feel like," Tyler admits with a breathy laugh, "but if being in love means thinking about someone every second of every day... If being in love means your entire mood shifts when they're around... If being in love means you'd do anything and everything for them," he murmurs, "then I am endlessly in love with you.

That's the thing about distance: It either gives you time to move on form someone, or it makes you realize just how much you need them.

You've got nothing to be worried about," he whispers slowly, his breath hot against my cheek, "because, baby, I'm all yours.

It__ only a scratch, don__ cut my arm off!

Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.

All I did was offer to kill your dog, and the next thing I know I__ being judged.

Perhaps being Death's companion would not be the most terrible thing in the world

Librarians are notorious snitches__on__ let anybody convince you otherwise.

This just didn__ happen to girls like me. This just didn__ happen to anyone.

Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.

We're only three class sessions in and I'm already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can't get out of my head?

I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the history of time has felt this good.

Everything feels yes.