Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.

I'm trying to feel sorry for you, really I am,"North said."If you wait just a moment I'm sure the tears will come.

It's in our blood to start again.

He held me against him gently, as if I was glass - as if I could shatter and fall away from him at any moment and leave him breathless and alone once more.

We'll just have to try to make better mistakes tomorrow.

Breathing him in wasn't enough, I wanted to inhale him. The leather, the smoke, the sweetness.

Sometimes you're the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don't mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can't dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you're made of.