You look so blindingly cute right now, I feel like I need to make a pinhole in a piece of paper just to look at you.

These things end,” she said. “They always end. Nobody marries their first love. First love is just that. First. It’s implied that something else will follow.

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.

It’s not my job to want you or not want you. It’s not my job to earn you.

I had this whole plan when I graduated high school: I was going to go to college, date a few guys, and then meet THE guy at the end of my freshman year, maybe at the beginning of my sophomore year. We'd be engaged by graduation and married the next year. And then, after some traveling, we'd start our family. Four kids, three years apart. I wanted to be done by the time I was 35.

She didn't want to run, period. It made her breasts feel like they were going to detach from her body.