Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

When he stopped walking and kissed me a few minutes later, it was like time had stopped, with the air, my heart, and the world all so still. And it was this I remembered every other time I was with Marshall.

The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.

So I just decided to relax into it, bumpy and crazy as it might be, and try for once to just go along for the ride.

Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something.

I mean, it's impossible to fake anything if you've already seen the other person in a way they'd never choose for you to. You can't go back from that.

Harder to get in than out, like so little else.