There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

If something doesn’t work exactly right, or maybe needs some special treatment, you don’t just throw it away. Everything can’t be fully operational all the time. Sometimes, we need to have the patience to give...

‘So you’re always honest,’ I said. ‘Aren’t you?’ ‘No,’ I told him. ‘I’m not.’ ‘Well, that’s good to know, I guess.’ ‘I’m not saying I’m a liar,’ I told him. He raised his eyebrows. ‘That’s...

All I’d ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.

But wasn’t that always the way. It’s never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you’re busy focusing on the big picture.

Just start somewhere,” Dr. Marshall had said to me as I ground a banana-pineapple one to bits between my teeth. “It doesn’t have to be at the beginning.” She’d pulled her legs up, Indian-style, letting...

I’d been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.

I was such a smart kid, I should have figured out that the only way to really get my parents’ attention was to disappoint them or fail. But by the time I finally realized that,...

Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you’ll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it’s that first date, that first moment. That’s...

I mean, it’s not surprising, really. Once you love something, you always love it in some way. You have to. It’s, like, part of you for good.

I didnt pay atteniton to times or distance, instead focusing on how it felt just to be in motion, knowing it wasn’t about the finish line but how I got there that mattered.

It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight...

We were there, together, and in the next room I could hear that monitor beeping. Keeping track of another heart’s beat and giving enduring, solid proof of our own.

The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

If he’d been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.

Sometimes it seems safer to hold it all in, where the only person who can judge is yourself.

I felt tears prick my eyes as I looked down at the model again, looking at that girl and boy on the curb. Forever in that place, together.

It’s all in the view. That’s what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure,...

Rogerson,” I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, “where would I find the pelagic zone?””In the open sea,” he said. “Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.

Like maybe it’s forever, maybe it’s not

The way I see it is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there...

Despite my dad’s assurances I was strangely nervous my stomach tight ever since we’d hung up. Maybe Deb had picked up on this and it was why she’d pretty much talked nonstop since I’d approached...

It shouldn’t be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It’s the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something’s difficult to come by, you’ll do...

Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone’s bad qualities because they somehow complete you.

I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I...

is such a boy question.

Relationships dont always make sense. Especially from the outside

I would miss Colby, but it wasn’t going anywhere. All the more reason why I should.

…You can’t unlearn something, even if you want to. You know what you know.

Some things don’t last forever, but some things do. Like a good book, a good song, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest time.

Why don’t you ever wait a second and see what I’m planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

It took a lot of work to be perfect. If you didn’t want to break a sweat, there was no point in even bothering.

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

Maybe marriage, like life, is’nt only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it’s all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even...

You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it’ll happen.

You only really fall apart in front of the people you know can piece you back together.

I didn’t pretend to know Eli at all, but even so, I’d noticed that his manner was slightly hard to read. It was something in the way he talked that made it difficult to tell...

Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.

Why should I even bother? What’s the point, really?”He thought for a moment. “Who says there has to be a point?” he asked. “Or a reason. Maybe it’s just something you have to do.

It’s a lot easier to be lost than found. It’s the reason we’re always searching and rarely discovered–so many locks not enough keys.

Explain it to me.”But I couldn’t. I’d had to learn it my own way, and so had my mother. Jason would eventually, as well. No one could tell you: you just had to go through...

Some people, they can’t just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem to be. But for me… I don’t know. I didn’t want to fix it,...

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn’t. But understanding… that’s where things get sticky.

It was great. Freedom even the imagined kind always is.

I understand that you are under a lot of pressure and that it’s hard being a bride. That is all well and good. But it does not, ever, entitle you to be rude, selfish, uncaring,...

Like I, of all people, didn’t know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they’d be able to find their way back to...