Her eyes travel down to where he's gripping the handle of her suitcase. "What're you doing?" she asks, blinking at him." You looked like you needed some help." Hadley just stares at him." And this way it's perfectly legal," he adds with a grin.

— Jennifer E. Smith

He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their daughters houses.

— Jennifer E. Smith

Hi,' he says.' Hi,' she says back, and then to her great surprise, she begins to cry.' You know,' Nick says as he hands her a tissue from the bedside table,' for all this talk about how you don't cry, you sure are sprouting a lot of water.

— Jennifer E. Smith

I might not say it, but I obviously show you how I feel,” she says. “Why do the words have to be so important?”“They just are,” he says, standing up and brushing off the back of his jeans. “Not because you’re saying them, but because you’re not.

— Jennifer E. Smith

Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

— Jennifer E. Smith

Is it possible not to ever know your type--not to even know you have a type--until quite suddenly you do?

— Jennifer E. Smith

Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?

— Jennifer E. Smith

It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it.

— Jennifer E. Smith

It had always been the two of them through everything -every adventure and every expedition- and now there was this awful distance between them, and she tried not to think about all the stories they were missing out on, all the title moments and bigger milestones that had happened over the past few weeks without the other knowing

— Jennifer E. Smith

I think you have to be more of a believer for these things to work," he said, wiping some ice cream from his face. "How are you supposed to find what you're looking for if you're not convinced it's even out there?

— Jennifer E. Smith