But I saw Blake earlier and he said he and Nate were taking off for an overnight business thing. So..." "... you're just going to jump their fence and their pool," I finished for her. Silence. Then Jamie said, "It's twenty-five degrees! In December! Do you know what this means?" "The apocalypse?

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

And no relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.

I think when you're a beginning author with any publishing company, there's only so much they can put behind you.