Now that she decided she knew exactly what she wanted –him- she couldn’t wait to break the news. And if he didn’t want her, she could live with that – what she wouldn’t be able to live with was if she never told him.

Stop your doubting, my love. I knew you would find me. ~Jack

Never trust a shiny surface. They hide a multitude of flaws.

She could not trust herself to hope—but without hope, she realized, she had no reason to go on.

They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.

That morning, she had found an envelope stuffed into her locker. It was from the Mercer Hotel, and held a plastic door key for their suite. "See you there tonight," Oliver had written. "Chomp! Chomp!

The more things change, the more they stay different.