Because publishing is becoming more business-oriented each day with more examination of the bottom line, it's harder to break out than ever.

They continued to watch each other from across the room, both frozen for a moment by the shadow of distant possibilities.

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.

You know me better than anyone, and you're my best friend. I don't think there's anything you could say to me that would lead me to believe that you're doing it just to hurt me. If there's one thing I've come to know about you, it's that you're not even capable of something like that. Why do you think I like spending time with you so much? Because you're a good guy. A nice guy.

That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

At times, he even admitted that he'd been more an observer of the world than a participant in it.

A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future.