I had to lull Mom and Hank into believing I was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public. If I exited my bedroom foaming at the mouth and dressed in black LOVE SUCKS tee, my plan would never get off the ground.

My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

..but maybe this was a defense mechanism. Maybe my mind was making me see things I refused to accept were gone forever. It was filling the void, because that was easier than letting go.

Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.

That's really eco-friendly of you," Vee told Marcie. "Recycling Nora's old trash.