You own a Tic Tac. Gum is just borrowed. - Esther

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.

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?

Only a weak person needed someone else around all the time.

Really, it had been stupid to expect anything anyway. A few late nights does not a habit, or a relationship, make.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it's reconciled, accepted, someone points it out to you, and it just hits you all over again, that shocking.