...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.

If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.