Missed opportunities were never superficial wounds; they cut straight to the bone.

I think that different things sell in different countries.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

Shelby believed that love was like a solar eclipse - breathtakingly beautiful, absorbing, and capable of rendering you blind. She had not necessarily gone out of her way to avoid a relationship, but she hadn't wanted on either. It was called falling in love for a reason - because, inevitably, you crashed at the bottom.

He began to trace a pattern on the table with the nail of his thumb. "She kept saying she wanted to keep things exactly the way they were, and that she wished she could stop everything from changing. She got really nervous, like, talking about the future. She once told me that she could see herself now, and she could also see the kind of life she wanted to have - kids, husband, suburbs, you know - but she couldn't figure out how to get from point A to point B.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

You okay in there?" "No, I'm hanging from a closet rod.