We make such messes in this life, both accidentally and on purpose. But wiping the surface clean doesn't really make anything neat. It just masks what's below. It's only when you really dig down deep, go underground, that you can see who you really are. ~Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye~

Odd how it was so easy for a stranger to assume such familiarity. Especially when those who were supposed to know you best often didn't, not at all. ~Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye

This was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was just so many different things. It was always changing. It was always what everything was really about. It was twenty minutes, or a hundred years, or just this instant, or any instant I wished would last and last. But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered and this was it: It was happening, right then, as I ran with Wes into that bright sun, and every moment afterwords. Look, there. Now. Now. Now.  ~Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever