Letters to the Lost (Letters to the Lost, #1)

by Brigid Kemmerer

I feel like the girl. Sometimes I feel like the bird. Sometimes I feel like the photographer, unable to do anything but watch. Kevin Carter killed himself after he won the Pulitzer. Sometimes I think I understand why.

wow..

I think fate conspires against us. Or maybe fate conspires with us.

a definition for insanity that talks about doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result.

When everything goes to hell around you, the only way to go is forward.

Men can be like toddlers, Juliet. Sometimes all they need is something shiny to distract them.

“More from your girl?” My girl. I shouldn’t like that. But I do.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHH..i think i like that a little to much.

She actually sent me an email. She sent me an email. I’m sitting in the school library and grinning like an idiot.

screaming, crying, blushing, kicking my feet, and banging my head on the wall.

I’m not ready for fate to tear this apart, okay? Now write back and tell me you’re all right.

AHHHHHHHHHH

My heart keeps fluttering, a butterfly trapped between cupped palms.

I wonder, if I keep faking it, will I eventually believe it? A part of me worries that I’ll keep faking it and completely forget what’s real at all.

“One day isn’t your whole life, Murph.” He waits until I look at him. “A day is just a day.”

You do know who I am. Find me. Grab me. Shake me. Please.

I have no idea, why that made me blush...

There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away, when the glow of early thought declines in feeling’s dull decay.’”

I smile and blush and nestle down under my blankets.

STOP I CANT BREATHE

“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” I can’t remember the last time I felt like the master of my own fate.

need her. More than anything right now. I need her. And because of everything between us, I can’t have her.

my heart.

“So you’re the boy Marisol keeps telling me she’s going to marry.” I cough. “Well. You know. We’re taking it slow.”

AWHHHHHHHH