Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

Sometimes books don't find us until the right time.

Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.

Intimacy doesn't have all that much to do with backseats of cars. Real intimacy is brushing your teeth together.

As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to long for two lives, to feel that one life can't come close to containing it all.

A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.