The next night, Lincoln parked his Corolla right next to The Courier's front door. I'm here, he thought. Find me. Follow me. Make this inevitable..

He pulled away to say he's sorry, and she shook her head no, because even though she really want him to be sorry, she wanted to kiss him more..

I don't like hello. It makes me sound like I have dementia, like I've never heard a phone ring before and I don't know what's supposed to happen next….

How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying, 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankin….

Don't bite his face, Eleanor told herself. It's disturbing and needy and never happens in situation comedies or movies that end with big kisses..

Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing you had to do to knock some sense into yourself? Wasn’t hitting bottom the thing that showed you which way was up?.

It never occurred to me when I was young that I could be an author. That would be like saying, "I want to be a movie star" or "I want to be a wizard.….

Smiling is confusing, she thought. This is why I don’t do it..

Are you on drugs?" "No." "Maybe you should be..

What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And wha….

Have you ever heard sculptors say that they don’t actually sculpt an object; they sculpt away everything that isn’t the object?.

I'm sorry about yesterday," she said. He hung on to his straps and shrugged. "Yesterday happens..

You act like there are two kinds of girls,' she said. 'The smart ones and the ones that boys like..

There's never been a moment,' he barely said, 'when I didn't recognize you.' She wiped her eyes. Her mascara smeared. He nudged the merry-to-round in….

Eggnog reminds me of mucus." "Me, too. But in a good way..

But you're so helpless sometimes. It's like watching a kitten with its head trapped in a Kleenex box..

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,' he said..

Nothing before you counts,” he said. “And I can’t even imagine an after..

I look like this because I'm alive," Reagan said. "Because I've had experiences. Do you understand?.

But it’s up to us …’ he said softly. ‘It’s up to us not to lose this.

It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy. Just cold enough that she could justifiably wear all her favor….