'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'

If you have just one person believe in you, you'll always find your way

Quiet and incredible. I really envy that.

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding of my heart or pride. So I reached over and pulled her to me, wrapping my arms around her, and held my best friend close, returning so many favors all at once.

Here was a boy who liked flaws, who saw them not as failings but as strengths. Who knew such a person could exist, or what would have happened if we'd found each other under different circumstances? Maybe in a perfect world. But not in this one.

Love is so unpredictable. Sometimes you'll know a man for years and then one day, boom! Suddenly you see him in a different way. And other times, it's that first date, that first moment. That's what makes it so great.