My brother had given me a task— go live your life more fully— knowing that if there was one way to ensure I’d tackle something, it was to make me think I was failing. And while I was pretty sure it hadn’t been Jensen’s intent that I spend time with Will to learn how to date and to, let’s face it, get laid, I needed to get inside Will’s head, learn from the master and be more like him in those ways. I just had to pretend I was a secret agent on an undercover assignment: get in and out and escape unharmed.
-- Hanna Bergstrom (Chapter 1 paragraph Page 14)

Importance: In this quote Hanna explains the inciting incident of the novel. Hanna describes herself as the personification of “drive,” and with a push from her brother she suddenly becomes driven to adjust the scales of her work/life balance. The fear of...