He told me that love was the only thing that really mattered in the world.

And when she dreams, she dreams of a girl who was lost at sea but one day found the shore.

The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls of the gym. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Hermione and Ron, Bonnie and Clyde, etc.

if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a person intact. you would be wrong, jane. love is a greedy toddler who knows only the word 'mine.

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.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life