Someday your prince will come," I assure him. "And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

The tenderness between two people can turn the air tender, the room tender, time itself tender. As I step out of bed and slip on an oversize shirt, everything around me feels like it's the temperature of happiness.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

instead i head to the computer and it's like i turn into a little girl who's just seen her first rainbow. i get all giddy and nervous and hopeful and despairing and i tell myself not to look obsessively at my buddy list, but it might as well be projected onto the insides of my eyelids. at 8:05 his name pops up, and i start to count. i only get to twelve before his IM pops up.

I was attempting to write the story of my life. It wasn't so much about plot. It was much more about character.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.