He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted.

How could someone with a life this full feel this empty?

Sometimes people who had been together for a long time got to imagining that things used to be better, even when they weren't.

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

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

Her friendship . . . still existed, as if it was a living, breathing thing, something that came to life the moment it happened and didn't just go away because they no longer acknowledged it.

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