everyone in our school has afterschool activities. mine is going home.

When the shock wears off, you always hope there's understanding underneath.

Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore.

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment.

Indelible, adj. That first night, you took your finger and pointed to the top of my head, then traced a line between my eyes, down my nose, over my lips, my chin, my neck, to the center of my chest. It was so surprising. I knew I would never mimic it. That one gesture would be yours forever.

need is never a good basis for any relationship. it has to be much more than that.

It was the most amazing feeling in the world. to know that something right happened, and to know that it had happened not through luck or command but simply because it was right.