Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

Still, she knows one thing for certain: never judge a relationship unless you are the one wrapped up in its arms.

Margaret thought of all she knew for certain, that day would always follow night that love was never wasted nor was it lost.

That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.

When I looked at her, she appeared to be a different person from the one I'd known... She had rewritten everything, our history together, our friendship. Now I was the girl who'd stolen Andres; the girl who'd lied to her about who I was. Therefore, she owned me nothing.

The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair.

Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.