It's not that i don't want you. I lied, earlier, when i said i was protecting you. I'm protecting myself. I don't want to be your rebound, Jacqueline." "Then why are you assuming that role? It's not what i want, either." "What am i gonna do with you?" "I can think of a couple things.

I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.

It isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

But just because you’re strong and resilient doesn’t mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.

The getting is easy; the keeping is the important part.

He stared down at me, and i examined his beautiful eyes up close, something i'd never tire of doing.