I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. "Could love me and love me and love me without...needing space." Lincoln wasn't asleep. He rolled on top of her. "There's no air in space," he said.

Even if your heart is broken and attacking you, you're still not better off without it.

My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.

She bent her neck back and kissed him like she never had before. Like she wasn't scared of doing it wrong.

If you don't want people to look at you, Park had thought at the time, don't wear fishing lures in your hair. Her jewelry box must look like a junk drawer.

He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated.

That was the beauty in stacking up words--they got cheaper, the more you had of them.