It’s a risk I’m willing to take. This happens once in a lifetime. You meet someone and have this crazy reaction … you touch her skin and it’s the best skin you’ve ever felt, and no perfume on earth could be better than her smell, and you know you could never be bored with her because she’s interesting even when she’s doing nothing. Even without knowing everything about her, you get her. You know who she is, and it works for you on every level.

She had never experienced the pain of unsatisfied desire before. It hurt. It hurt like nothing she'd ever felt, and there seemed to be no remedy

Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.

If you have to tell someone they call the shots, they're not really calling the shots.

I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation

Sometimes a woman needs a man for company, no matter how useless he is.

I carry thoughts of you like my own personal constellation. How far away you are, my dearest friend, but no farther than those fixed stars in my soul.