this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship," I say. "Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?

i have never had anybody talk to me like this. this is not a flirty sixth-grade phone call or bantering with friends or words passed in a note. i feel that if my soul could talk it would talk like this.

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

underneath all that denial, you're someone who's deeply, deeply nice.