The path of your life can change in an instant.

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.

Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

Tibby was shaking her head. "What?" Bailey asked. "Nothing. Just that you suprise me every day," Tibby said. Bailey smiled at her. "I like that you let yourself be suprised.

She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.