But there is a different between mending someone who's broken and finding someone who makes you complete.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right.

She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

No one gets to start where they left off; it just doesn't work that way.

Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.

Infatuation's just another word for not seeing clearly. When you start to love a person- that's when they become real