He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.

Believe it or not, that was the first time I recognized that in some ways she was just like the rest of us.

Everything a baby does strikes a parent as the most magical thing he/she has ever seen.

That'’s a way to increase the realism to the reader, if you want to get technical - you leave it [character] vague and you let the reader fill in the blanks with their imagination.

Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars-a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone.

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present. Yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.