When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

Says the girl with no thyme.

You can't make any one person your world. The trick is to take what each can give you and build a world from it.

It's true. It's like the hidden secret that no one tells you. we can all be beautiful girls, Colie. it's so easy. it's like Dorothy clicking her heels to go home. You could do it all along.

Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.