I can't make it fade.

Try to imagine where we'd be without you, darlin', and then maybe you'll see just how lucky we got.

If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.

Maybe nothing will ever change for us,” he said. “But don’t you want to be around just in case it does?

I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. "I could kiss you!" Chubs cried. "Please don't!" I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.

Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.

I was just an okay person.