Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

Safe is just another word for scared.

I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

I think of the future all the time. All my life I've chased dreams of what could be. For the first time in my life, I've actually caught one. I'll give you one day at a time, Claire. But remember, I'm thousands of days ahead already.

Girls like us, when we love, it takes everything we have.

Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger but deeper, heavier. Like the best kind of expectation. Ice cream expectation. Chocolate expectation.