Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

It's your eyes. They're ... more serious than they used to be. Like they've seen things they shouldn't have.

I had no choice. Love does funny things to people.

Life, I've learned, is never fair. If they teach anything in schools, that should be it.

Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"

Like her father, he wasn't comfortable sharing his thoughts and feelings. She tried to explain that she needed to be closer to him, but it had never seemed to make a difference.

Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.