People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

She knew what it felt like to stand in front of someone and ask them to love you, to try to pull them to you by the sheer force of your desire, a force so strong it felt as though you were going to die from it.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

But one thing she [Rachel] did believe in was love. She believed that you could smell it, that you could taste it, that it could change the entire course of your life.

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.

It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good.