I guess I just realized how everything we do affects not only our lives, but people around us, too. It sucks that one weak moment could change the entire course of someone's life.

Leaning against him, feeling the warmth radiate off him, listening to his breath go in and out, she knew she was exactly where she belonged.

—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces

The past is done, and we can't change it. All we can do is try to be better. What really matters is who you are now.

—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces

Music can transport you to another time with a couple of notes. It makes you feel the heartbreak or the love, right along with the singer. The right song speaks to your soul in a way nothing else can. It's magic.

—Cindi Madsen in Cipher

There was something about the smallest gestures with him that made me feel like a teenager again. I told myself to just enjoy it.

—Cindi Madsen in Cinderella Screwed Me Over

She needed a break from worrying about what to say and how to act every second of the day.

—Cindi Madsen in All the Broken Pieces

One mistake can change the course of your life. You can never return to your original path or go back to the person you were.

—Lisa See in The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane

Nothing had changed. I was the stupid one again. I was the girl who never understood who she was to people.

—Carol Rifka Brunt in Tell the Wolves I'm Home

Sometimes you think you know things, know things very deeply, only to realize you don't know a damn thing.

—Jandy Nelson in I'll Give You the Sun

Nostalgia is a way of remembering people and places and things, and wishing things hadn't changed. It has a sweetness to it.

—Linda Lael Miller in Creed's Honor

I don't know how I got to be thirty. I don't feel thirty, the way I felt so definitely nine, and thirteen, and twenty-one.

—Rachel Khong in Vitamin