Dance with me,' Win said. 'I know I'm probably making a fool of myself. You're probably thinking, how many times do I have to reject this guy? Can't he take a hint?' I shook my head. 'But somehow I don't even care. I see you in your red dress, standing by the punch table, and something in me wants to keep trying. I think, she is a person worth knowing.

For the longest time after that, neither of us said anything. I was unaccustomed to his silence, but I didn't mind it. I knew near everything about him, and he knew near everything about me, and all that made our quiet a kind of song. The kind you hum without even knowing what it is or why you're humming it. The kind that you've always known.

Life used to move much more quickly when I was a girl. We needed to abbreviate just to keep up.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even for a moment, and when you turn back around, everything’s changed.

In life, Jane reflected, the most interesting things tend to happen when you're on your way to do something else.

Did you know that there are over three hundred words for love in canine?