we had each other. I never needed anyone else. That’s the difference between you and me. You need all these people around you. Your friends, your boyfriend, everyone. Every single person has to like you. I only ever needed one person. Only ever needed you.

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.

It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I’m sorry, to say it’s okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then… and then. Who knew?

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.

don’t mistake a new place for a new you.