What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.

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

Marnie hated to see her spend so much of herself on someone who didn't care.

Besides being asked why I write about young characters, I am often asked how I write about young characters. How do I throw myself across the chasm of full adulthood to relive that period? I guess I don’t, really. Age is not so much a feature of your character, as the spot where you stand for a pretty fleeting time on the arc of your life.

But like everything else, love changed.

Love didn't necessarily look the way you expected it to.

Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.