He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and coll that it surprised you that it has such strength.

Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

Nothing is really broke, so it's not like I can fix it. I just have to keep trying to find what I'm looking for.

Whenever I would get too nosy as a child, my grandmother would say, "When you learn someone else's secret, your own secrets aren't safe. Dig up one, release them all.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

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.

I lost myself trying to find happiness in things that didn't love me back.