I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

The brain of a person in love will show activity in the amygdala, which is associated with gut feelings, and in the nucleus accumbens, an area associated with rewarding stimuli that tends to be active in drug abusers. Or, to recap: the brain of a person in love doesn't look like the brain of someone overcome by deep emotion. It looks like the brain of a person who's been snorting coke.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust.

When you look into your baby’s eyes,” Lacy said softly, “you see everything you hope they can be…not everything you wish they won’t become.

What if the one I choose to discount is one who has been truly hurt?

It just goes to show you: you can put nine insane miles between you and another person. You can make a vow to never speak his name. You can surgically remove someone from your life. And still, he'll haunt you.