If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

It’s so easy to get caught up in what people expect of you. Sometimes, you can just lose yourself

Shit," Delia said. "I mean, shoot. No, actually, I mean shit. I really do.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. it doesn't just catch up: it overtakes, blotting out the future, the landscape, the very sky, until there is no path left except that which leads through it, the only one that can ever get you home.

I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

I don't lie."
"You don't lie," I repeated.
"That's what I said."
"Ever."
"Nope."
Sure you don't, I thought.