There was no word in the dictionary adequate to describe the sensation other than sensational.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.

It still might be a shock. To realize you are just one story walking among millions.

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

The reward is in the risk.

What I’m sorry about is not being a tipsy idiot when you found me. I’m sorry about that, obviously, but more sorry that my stupidity caused us to lose a great opportunity. I don’t imagine you would have met me and fallen crazy in love with me, but I would like to think that if you’d had a chance to meet me under different circumstances, something just as nice could have happened. We could have become friends.