Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong." "I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.

Some things don't last forever, but some things do.

There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.

Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.

You can't always get the perfect moment. Sometimes, you just have to do the best you can under the circumstances.

I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.

This is exactly what i wanted, as commitments had never really been my thing. And it wasn't like it was hard, either. The only trick was never giving more than you were willing to lose.