I realized that my kisses with Dane had become a form of punctuation, the quotations or the hasty dash at the end of a conversation

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

I am running after you, and life, in desperate pursuit. My dream is that someday you will both turn and let me catch you. That dream carries me through every night... I have enclosed a hundred kisses in this letter. You must count them out carefully and not lose any.

Dane was shaking his head firmly. "Don't bring it here, Ella. No babies." I gave him a dark look. "What if it were a baby polar bear or a baby Galapagos penguin? I bet you'd want it then." "I'd make an exception for endangered species," he allowed. "This baby is endangered. It's with my mother.

But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.

Cam had once told her that the Rom believed the entire world was their home. As long as you were with your family you were home.

Weddings are never about the bride and groom, weddings are public platforms for dysfunctional families.