The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

He'd always been fascinated by her, drawn to her the way curious people are always drawn to things they don't understand.

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

Embarrassment felt a lot like eating chili peppers. It burned in the back of your throat and there was nothing you could do to make it go away. You just had to take it, suffer from it, until it eased off.

She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love.

When your cup is empty, you do not mourn what is gone. Because if you do, you will miss the opportunity to fill it again.