“ It's just one more thing she hadn't considered, and as the idea of it settles over her, she realizes again how entwined their lives are. They're like two trees whose branches have grown together. Even… Jennifer E. Smith
“ They'd become unaccustomed to the brightness of their own city, and, faced with it now in all its intensity, they cupped their hands over their eyes as if staring into the sun. Jennifer E. Smith
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“ You could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret-by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out. Jennifer E. Smith
“ Above them, one of the blackened television screens brightens, and there's an announcement about the in-flight movie. It's an animated film about a family of ducks, one that Hadley's actually see, and… Jennifer E. Smith
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“ There’s a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it’s actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them. Jennifer E. Smith
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“ 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 dau… Jennifer E. Smith
“ It took a moment to right himself, and he pulled his shoulders back as he regained his equilibrium. He didn't want to be half asleep the first time he kissed Ellie. For that, he wanted to be wide awak… Jennifer E. Smith
“ He'd thought this was the start of something. But clearly she'd changed her mind, and he felt stunned by home quickly the whole thing had unraveled, the end coming before the beginning really even had… Jennifer E. Smith
“ Childhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bags 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
“ But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness , like the very last thing he wants is to be left… Jennifer E. Smith
“ And the geography of the thing--the geography of them--was completely and hopelessly wrong. Jennifer E. Smith
“ Because even this --being so close to her --was no longer the same. That light he'd felt when he first saw her --he understood now that it was only a lightbulb. It was quick and easy, full of electric… Jennifer E. Smith
“ They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being the novelty, the random American, he would recognize who she really was… Jennifer E. Smith
