The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations - all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.

But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion.

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did the right thing...On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I’m already too late.

She is my first and only love. Most people know that their first love will not be their only love. But for me, she is both.

So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me.