Sean settles swiftly behind me, and I'm startled by the sudden closeness of him, my back suddenly warm against his chest, the press of his hips on ag….

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death..

Not dead-dying. Funny how two things could be so similar and yet so far apart.

I'm not done writing songs about you yet..

Now, I was a fan of the simple pleasures in life: grilled cheese sandwiches without black flecks on the crust, jeans that didn't pinch the better par….

As I handed her the bag, the old scars on my wrist throbbed with buried memories..

He was clearly related to Declan: same nose, same dark eyebrows, same phenomenal teeth. But there was a carefully cultivated sense of danger to this ….

It's like how on certain days some people wear sweaters when other people can wear t-shirts and still feel comfortable - different reactions to the s….

One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside I say good-bye good-bye good-bye….

when we're married, can we go to the ocean? I've never been.

Blue stretched her hand out. Adam took it without hesitation, like he'd been waiting for her to offer it. He said in a low voice, just for her, "My h….

Adam was in the dream, too; he traced the tangled pattern of ink with his finger. He said, "Scio quid hoc est." As he traced it further and further d….

whoopdie-friggin-doo, fooled you!.

A novel is a conversation starter, and if the author isn't there for the after-party, both the writer and the reader are missing a lot..

You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of a….

Rilke says: Verweilung, auch am Verstrautesten nicht, ist uns gegeben - We are not allowed to linger, even with what is most intimate..

It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end..

Now I am the unknown, the unknowable..

a life is measured by moments like these.

..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands.

In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirt….