“ Just because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people. Jennifer E. Smith
“ ...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you. Jennifer E. Smith
“ And the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now. Jennifer E. Smith
“ Maybe this was why Owen had been so desperate to travel, why she'd longed for it herself without ever really knowing why. It wasn't just that you got to be somewhere else entirely. It was that you got… Jennifer E. Smith
“ Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime. Jennifer E. Smith
“ It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sen… Jennifer E. Smith
“ No matter how long it’s been or how far you’ve drifted, no matter how unknowable you might be, there were at least two people in the world whose job it was to see you, to find you, to recognize you an… 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 becaus… 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
“ There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark. Jennifer E. Smith
“ But a small part of him also knew that the reason he'd never ventured anywhere was because of the worry that the reality of the world wouldn't match up to his dreams. 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
“ 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 w… Jennifer E. Smith
“ But it was different, somehow, to be reading it here, where the actual events had taken place all those hundreds of thousands of years ago. That was the thing about books, she was realizing; they coul… 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'… Jennifer E. Smith
“ Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to what happe… Jennifer E. Smith
“ Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?”“There are different kinds of happy,” she said. “Some kinds don’t need any proof. Jennifer E. Smith
