That’s the really annoying thing about love. I probably would be happier if I didn’t know it, but once you do know it, once you feel those things for someone, you can’t make yourself really...

Something…normal,” he finally said.

So, for her, I’ll try. I’ll trust. I’ll … open myself. I’ll … be this guy I’ve never been before and don’t even known how to be—this goofy “in love” guy, this guy who takes...

This was maybe the first time she’d done it when she’d felt the true intimacy of it. The first time she’d done it because she wanted to express her feelings for a guy in some...

Yeah. I do.

I know you don’t like to believe you ever need to be taken care of, but I can’t stand the idea of you being sick and alone. I need to be here for you, babe.

To start taking care of you?

I hate making you nervous.

It just makes me realize how . . . fleeting life can be. How quickly it all passes by. And it’s strange to read something written by someone whose life was really just beginning then...