...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.

Words can be used as a bomb or balm.

So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me? And Marcus, being Marcus, knew what I really wanted to know, and answered my silent, more significant question. He held up his hand to shield the rays and looked me in the eyes. Almost.

Every day, I live a lie But not the crocodile kind.

That's what all love comes down to, doesn't it? We help others only as much as they let us.

So much of courtship is the unspoken.

Ever notice how people wait until they're not going to see you anymore to say something nice to you?