“The walls were coming down around me, but still, I couldn't imagine telling the truth. Not now. It was too late. How can I tell Mom and Dad what we'd done? It would ruin everything. It would ruin their image… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Don't worry about the finish line. Don't question what you're doing. Just quiet your mind and keep up the pace.” — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“But then I think about where knowing somebody has gotten me: nowhere. No. someplace worse than nowhere, because when you’re nowhere I’m pretty sure… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“It was then, there in the darkness, with only those little pin-points of light to see by, light from a world away where other… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.” — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or intentions you… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Harper, I..." You don't have to say it." I don't?" I know." You know what?" I lean against him, nestling in the crook of his arm. I talk into his neck. I don't need to be able to see to find the parts of him I know. That morning in the trailer, when we had it to ourselves, and you… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share
“But I do remember this thing that this famous rabbi wrote once about how Christians build cathedrals, these gorgeous impressive structures, but Jews, with a long history of watching their buildings get destroyed, build their cathedrals in time. The High Holidays. Shabbat. Cathedrals carved out of time that can never be worn down. I know you're no Jew but I… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share
The Little Drummer Boy was playing in the background for what seemed like the third time in a row. I fought off an urge… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Guys don’t go for me. Period. I don’t distract them. They don’t sneak glances in my direction. They don’t think of me when I’m… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
We sat looking out at the ocean. There was just so much of it, and it never failed to take my breath away. Looking at the ocean gave me the same sensation I'd get staring at a sky full of stars- that I was small. Like the way a math problem reveals its undeniable truth, I knew when I stared… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share
“I've learned enough this year to know that life may surprise you, but not usually in the ways you imagine.” — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“Some things you can fix, and some things you can’t. And I just think it is a shame to walk away from the things… — Dana Reinhardt Copy Share Image
