It was mint and memories and the past and the future and she felt as if she’d done this before and already she longed to do it again.

They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them.

Cole sat back up, slowly, and I opened my eyes. His expression, as ever, was blank, the face he wore when something mattered. He said, "That's how I would kiss you, if I loved you.

I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.

...the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.

I was losing sight of the wolf ahead of me; the one inside me seemed closer all of a sudden.

Then Maura made something with butter and Calla made something with bacon and Blue steamed broccoli in self-defense.