You should never wish for wishful thinking.

It's a total lie to say there's only one person you're going to be with for the rest of your life. If you're lucky - and if you try really hard - there will always be more than one.

Cinderella!" Dov cried. "Let down your hair!

It broke the spell. It's not that I stopped being happy. I was still inexplicably, utterly happy. But suddenly the happiness had implications.

So much is happening and yet nothing at all.

That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.

Dumped doesn't even begin to describe it. If you're going to use a trash metaphor, incinerated is more like it.