But I also know that sometimes Adam needs to do things the dramatic way. He is fond of the Grand Gesture

It's ok if you want to stop fighting.

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be

The line between true self and feigned self is blurred on all sides. Which I think is a rather handy metaphor for falling in love.

My first impulse is not to grab her or kiss her or yell at her. I simple want to touch her cheek, still flushed from the night's performance. I want to cut through the space that separates us, measured in feet-not miles, not continents, not years-and to take a callused finger to her face.