People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline... The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.

— Jennifer E. Smith

People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.

— Jennifer E. Smith

She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again.

— Jennifer E. Smith

She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.

— Jennifer E. Smith

She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn't always have to get it right. It's okay to look back, even as you move forward.

— Jennifer E. Smith

Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling.

— Jennifer E. Smith

Someone once told her there's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together. Hadley has her doubts about how accurate this could possibly be, a calculation so simple for something as complicated as heartbreak.

— Jennifer E. Smith

Suddenly, it seemed there were about a million times he was supposed to have kissed her, even without the benefit of a script, even without any sort of direction.

— Jennifer E. Smith

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

— Jennifer E. Smith

The idea that their paths might have easily not crossed leaves her breathless, like a near-miss accident on a highway, and she can't help marveling at the sheer randomness of it all. Like any survivor of chance, she feels a quick rush of thankfulness, part adrenaline and part hope.

— Jennifer E. Smith