you have to love something before you can hate it.

For nothing is more fulfilling than love itself

She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back

Their fingers seemed to fit together in just the right way- effortlessly clasped,like perfect complements.

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1.

In all my life, I'd never been as sure of anything, and as much as I hoped to one day hear Savannah say these words to me, what mattered most was knowing that love was mine to give, without strings or expectations.

That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.