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

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

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

Her life was monotonous, but it kept her out of trouble. . . . This, her father would say, was called being an adult.

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

When you're a teenager, your friends are your life. When you grow up, friendships seem to get pushed further and further back, until it seems like a luxury, a frivolity, like a bubble bath.

Crystalline swirls of sugar and flour still lingered in the air like kite tails.