The Rest of the Story

by Sarah Dessen

After loving someone you couldn’t depend on, you realize how important it is to trust someone will do what they say. It’s such a simple thing, not to promise what you can’t or won’t deliver. But my mom had done that all the time. In

Parents are always precious. But when you only have one, they become crucial.

No matter where you are, home or the strangest of places, everyone wants to look like they know where they’re going.

If life is a journey, wouldn’t you rather be the person behind the wheel than the one just being carried along?”

But all my life I’d felt more like an observer than an active participant. Beside the wheel, not behind. It was safer there, but could be lonely too, or so I was now realizing. Maybe there was a middle ground between living too hard and living at all. Maybe, here, I was finding it.

You can make your life, or life can make you. Was it really that simple of a choice?

“A life isn’t just the pages you know, it’s everything. We just can’t see what’s happened yet.”