He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.

All I could think to do was love her. That's all a person can do.

Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.

He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

She hadn't chosen the brave life. She'd chosen the small, fearful one.

No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die.