Status Updates From Anna K: Away (Anna K, #2)

“Her name’s Tiare and she’s my girlfriend. My first real girlfriend. I love her. Like I really love her. She’s knocked me off my feet and I get it now. I get how Alexia felt about you. Over and over, he told me how you were different, how he’d never felt this way before. That it was like looking out at a field of flowers but only seeing one flower. […] But I get it now with Tiare. She's my one flower.”

“It was bizarre to see him, this person she had dated for years. He now seemed like a stranger, a very familiar stranger.”

“‘Ahh, I’m going to tell you the same thing I told him. Life is long and lovers come into your life for three things: a reason, a season, or a lifetime, and no one knows which one it is until later,’ Jimela said.”

“At the beginning of the summer she was truly lost, not knowing who she was without all the expectations that defined her life. But now, unburdened by the constraints of perfection, she felt confident to blaze her own trail into the future.”

“‘it didn’t feel real to me. It was hard for me to take everything in while I was there and now that he shared so much with me in his letters, I feel like I’ve left things unsaid. I wish I could go and visit his grave site again. I’m in a much better headspace now than I was in June.’
‘Maybe you should go,’ Jules said. ‘Take it from a writer. There’s nothing worse than things left unsaid.’”

“‘Not exactly…’ Ashton said. ‘WTF Wyatt ended up becoming a coke addict and wound up in rehab. He’s now studying theology and wants to be a minister, so there’s always a dark side to any good drama.’
‘Giving up drugs and finding religion is the dark side?’ Kiril asked.
‘Yes,’ said Ashton. ‘It is.’”