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.

To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.

Fate never promises to tell you everything up front. You aren't always shown the path in life you're supposed to take. But if there was one thing she'd learned in the past few weeks, it was that sometimes, when you're really lucky, you meet someone with a map.

Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

She sometimes thought she was going crazy. Her first thought when she woke up was always how to get him out of her thoughts. And she would keep watch, hoping to see him next door, while plotting ways to never have to see him again.