We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we’d once been fluent in and were finding again

Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.

It was like there was an elephant in the room. An elephant that expected us to have sex.

Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what.The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home.And real friends never have to tell you that they’re your...

What was the point of trying to run away if people were going to insist on reminding you of what you were running from?

Roger, he has a chain saw,” I hissed. “I am not going to die in Kentucky!

When you move as much as I have…you know how it ends. You promise to stay in touch with people, but it doesn’t work out. It never does. And you forgot about what the friendship...

It’s not about the destination. It’s getting there that’s the good part.- Leonard

All the stuff you can’t wait to get away from, until it’s not there anymore, and then you miss it like crazy.

Ich finde es überflüssig, mich mit Leuten abzugeben, die später mal keine Rolle mehr in meinem Leben spielen werden.

Nothing worth doing is easy,” frank said. “Especially not in the beginning. But I’m not about to give up.

I’d found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

In a well-ordered universe…camping would take place indoors.

In a well-ordered universe…

Anyone else would have probably stayed put—or at least looked deeply uncomfortable, but Frank seemed like he was taking this in stride, like helping to reunite friends was just a normal thing he did.

I looked like someone who’d had a night, and had a story to tell about it.

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren’t looking for them.

She spoke fast, and seemed to be a combination of stressed out and on the verge of cracking up, which was a mixture I wasn’t sure I’d ever seen before.

You don’t have to go away to know where your home is.

And we were kissing like drowning people breathe– like suddenly we’d discovered something that has never been so sweet before that moment.

And sometimes,” she added, in a slightly hushed tone, like she was letting me in on a secret, “if you don’t feel great on the inside, just look great on the outside, and after a...

And I felt, in the silence that followed, everything that had happened on the trip to bring me to this place.

You + Mesaw this…AMERICAThank you for finding America with me

I kept thinking back to all those nights in Connecticut, when I was out the door as soon as dinner was over, yelling my plans behind me as I headed to my car, ready for...

…You can do something extraordinary, and something that a lot of people can’t do. And if you have the opportunity to work on your gifts, it seems like a crime not to. I mean, it’s...

He stood and looked at me for a moment, taking in my outfit. “You look hot.””What? Me?” I stammered, completely flummoxed.”Yeah,” he said, still looking at me.”Oh. Um, thank you. I mean, not that you...

And she kept following the truck, like we were a very small parade, waving and waving, until Frank took the curve in the road and then she was gone.

You’re the brightest thing in the room,” he said. He lifted his hand from my waist, and slowly, carefully brushed a stray lock of hair from my cheek. “You shine.

All I could determine was that it must have been a nice thing to see if it was a house you were thinking about moving into. But not so nice if it was the house...

I tried to shut out the feelings that were hurting my heart with a thousand tiny pinpricks, which was somehow worse that having it broken all at once.