I want to be with you as much as possible, Ronnie. You're smart and funny and you're honest. I trust you. I trust us. Yeah, I'm leaving and you're going back home. But neither of those things changes the way I feel about you. And my feelings aren't going to change simply because I'm going to Vanderbilt. I love you more than I've ever loved anyone.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

You could have told me earlier.” “You seemed so serious about the game. I didn’t want to bother you.

Mike, however, heard nothing at all. Lost in her breathlike touch, he knew only one thing for sure: In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.

While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them.

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there’s been a lifetime of disappointment between them.