...have a theory that she is in love with the dream of someone and not an actual person.

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things?

I do not like sitting idly by when something clearly isn't right. I feel... not trapped but something like it, and I don't know what to about.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

...the thrill of being surrounded by something wondrous and fantastical, only magnified and focused directly at her. The feel of his skin against hers reverberates across her entire body, though his fingers remain entwined in hers.

I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.