Again, it occurred to me how weird it was to be permanent in a place that to everyone else was only temporary. Like I could never be sure if they were the ones who weren't real, or if I was.

In those first few hours officially single again the world seems like it expands, suddenly bigger and more vast now that you have to get through it alone.

What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?

It was such a weird thing how a breakup stretched much wider than you expected. You didn't just lose a person, but their entire world as well.

This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.