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.

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

He took my anxiety personally, as if he’d broken me or something. Which was nuts, because all he’d ever done was hold me together, even and especially when the rest of my world was falling apart.

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

The past was always present, in its way, and you can’t help but remember. Even if you can’t remember at all.