Maybe Fate isn't the pond you swim in but the fisherman floating on top of it, letting you run the line wild until you are weary enough to be reeled back in.

Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it comes to first steps." Are you," I said. "Then tell me how." You close your eyes," Coop answered, "and jump.

love doesn't follow the rules... nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable.

Eric understands that the world is rarelythe way it is supposed to be. And he knows that, given the chance, we don't have to wait for someone to make messes of our lives. We do a good enough job, ourselves.

Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.

Kids think with their brains cracked wide open; becoming an adult, I've decided, is only a slow sewing shut.