Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.

It doesn't rain every day. Just every other day.

And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.

Anything that kills hope is a sin

Because I understand all the ways of trying to escape, how sometimes you escape one prison only to find you've built yourself a different one.

I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.