Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.

The rules took a while to sort out. Lena and Carmen wanted to focus on friendship-type rules, stuff about keeping in touch with one another over the summer, and making sure the Pants kept moving from one girl to the next. Tibby preferred to focus on random things you could and couldn't do in the Pants --- like picking your nose.

I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.

Hey," he said. "It's someday." He said the last word in Greek.

How terrible would it be to just wait there pathetically alone for him never to show up?" Eudoxia's expression grew more serious. "That's what you're doing anyway, my dear.

Carmen was bad at loving. She loved too hard.

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.