“This was like discovering your vanilla cupcake had a chocolate fudge center.”

“She smelled like vanilla spice, or pumpkin pie, or something sweet yet sinful.”

“Every conversation they had anymore it felt like instead of unraveling the mystery, it just further entangled all of them into a twisted never-ending knot.”

“No, nothing much had changed in the old neighborhood. She was still just an actress in someone else’s play.”

“Skate, you’re about to pop the best wheelie of your life.”

“Just because the bully was always nice to you, never stole your lunch money, didn’t make him any less of a bully, did it?”

“His face burst into a prism of colors and light as her eyes welled with tears and when they fell down her cheeks it felt like fire.”