It won't be a normal life-I know that. But it will be a life. A life together.

Yes, we could talk to you for days on end about all the bad first dates. Those are stories. Funny stories. Awkward stories. Stories we love to share, because by sharing them, we get something out of the hour or two we wasted on the wrong person. But that's all bad first dates are: short stories. Good first dates are more than short stories. They are first chapters. On a good first date, everything is springtime. And when a good first date becomes a relationship, the springtime lingers. Even after it's over, there can be springtime.

People often say that when couples are married for a long time, they start to look alike. I don't believe that. But I do believe their sentences start to look alike.

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

It feels like I am wasting time. I mean, that's always the case. My life doesn't add up to anything.

It's the way you say thank you like you're genuinely thankful. I have never met anyone else who does that on a regular basis.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.