She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.

I mean putting yourself out there in the way of overwhelming happiness and knowing you're also putting yourself in the way of terrible harm. I'm scared to be this happy. I'm scared to be this extreme.

There was one thing Bridget like about guys. They took insults well.

Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch tag at the back of your collar- that happened to every person in the course of the day. Maybe everybody had the same allotted measure of happiness within each day.

I'm not going anywhere without you. We're swimming to China together. And if the worst happens, I'm dying with you before I'm living without you.

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.