The first time she kissed me, I truly thought I'd had an aneurysm - my pulse was thundering so loud and my senses were exploding. This, I remember thinking, the only word I could hold on to in a sea of feelings.

You know someone's right for you when the things they don't have to say are even more important than the things they do.

Unlike Elise, who could discover parts of a person they didn't even know were absent, you specialized in tangible, but that, I feared, was only a matter of time.

Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?

You may be real, but you're still stuck in a book.

...when people we love make choices, we don't always understand them. But we can go on loving them, just the same. It isn't a matter of comprehension. It's forgiveness.

How foolish it is to run away with a man who's already run away with someone else.