The Rest of the Story

by Sarah Dessen

Maybe it was just that I had high expectations, thanks to all the romantic movies and books I myself had consumed.

Maybe there was a middle ground between living too hard and living at all. Maybe, here, I was finding it.

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

of grieving is letting go of the past. But how can you let go if you never knew it in the first place?”

“About a girl who lived at a lake and hated the winter. But in the summer, she was happy.”

“Part of grieving is remembering,”

There’s a reason the saying is ‘Seize the day,’ not ‘Wait for it to come along at some point.’”