He took a few steps before responding. "You are special," he finally said, and the way e said it made her wonder if he wanted to add something else.

Why did you say you believed me ?" In profile, he could see both the young woman she was becoming and the little girl he remembered. "Because I trust you.

All of sudden, this shooting star went by, and all I could think was that they were listening to us somehow.

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.

You know the real me," she said, stopping to peer up at him. "More than anyone else.

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

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.