There are moments in your life when the big pieces slide and shift. Sometimes the big changes dong happen gradually but all at once. That's how it was for us. That was the day we discovered that friends can do things for you that your parents can't.

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted or do what she wanted or even want what she wanted.

But then she hadn’t just learned to love this summer – she had also learned how to need.

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.