Levi's smile broke free and devoured his whole face. It started to devour her face, too. Cath had to look away.

I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn’t get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

Emergency dance party--go away.

You give away nice like it doesn't cost you anything.

You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. She didn't know at twenty-three.