Abandon

New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, a dark, fantastical story about this world . . . and the underworld. Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can't help but feel at once a part of thi

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I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

Life Worrying Stress Believe

When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

Blame humanity Chance Suffering

No one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

Blame Victim Responsibility

He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

Kissing Meant To Be possessive

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all.

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

possibilities anything Change

But really, the term ‘forgive and forget’ doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always healthy. But if we forget, we don’t learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.

— Meg Cabot, amazon.com

forgive forget Mistakes Learning

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