“You dont have to be involved with my parents. Not if you dont want to be. Yes, youre the father,but you arent my boyfriend or husband. My family is my problem.I do, he said, before he even realized...”

“Are you okay?She looked up, her eyes glistening. I just . . . I . . .Hey. He stood up and rounded the picnic table, sitting next to her on the bench. He wrapped hisarm around her, the feeling of he...”

“Hi. He turned and saw Kelsey standing in the door of the kitchen, looking . . . Well, she wasglowing. That pregnant woman glow, maybe? Or just the sun hitting her face at the right time. Eitherway,...”

“He found himself fighting the urge to reach out and take her chin between his thumb andforefinger. To tilt her head so that she had to look at him. So that her lips were so close to his a slightmov...”

“Tupperware? I dont know. Thats what my mom did.Well, my mom had to bring bigger containers for food when the family ate outdoors. But she usedthis when she and Dad . . .”

“She swallowed, her eyes dropping to his lips. And he knew she felt it too.”

“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each...”

“Tonight was... well, it was perfect for me too. You've turned my world upside down. I've fallen in love with you, chica, and it scares the fuckin' shit outta me. I've been shakin' all night, becaus...”

“Love must not entreat,' she added, 'or demand. Love must have the strength to become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins to attract.”

“What bothered me the most was the hesitation in his voice when he said that like he was running out of time.”

“Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.”

“Killing someone is different in practice than it is in theory. There are factors you cant prepare for, feelings in the moment where youll question everything you thought you knew about yourself, ot...”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”