Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.

Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.

when things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it's because a little piece gets lost -- the two remaining ends couldn't fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

hubris, n. Every time I call you mine, I feel like I'm forcing it, as if saying it can make it so. As if I'm reminding you, and reminding the universe: mine. As if that one word from me could have that kind of power.

Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.

He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. There is such loss in his eyes, and it permeates every other part of his body.