You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

I was thanking him for...well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

Seeing him again after so long awakened something inside me. I was surprised to find myself feeling sad rather than joyful, as I would have imagined.

Passion can quickly slip to jealousy, or even hatred.

We all know that a winter scene, though it may be covered over one day, with even the trees dressed in shawls of snow, will be unrecognizable the following spring. Yet I never imagined such a thing could occur within our very selves.