If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

It felt as though they were the only people in the world, two young women about to bury the symbol of their helplessness, as if that's all it would take to make them whole again.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

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.

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

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

Memories, even hard memories, grew soft like peaches as they grow older.