“Because I was with you," he tells her. "I feel better when I'm with you.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“pg 29 their brief relationship now strikes her as the most obvious mistake in the worl” — Jennifer E. Smith Mistake Copy Share Image
“The most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.” — Jennifer E. Smith Love Copy Share Image
“That’s the way these things work, kiddo,” he says. “Love isn't supposed to make sense. It's completely illogical.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“It's not easy, you know? To get the thing you want most in the world in the worst way possible.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“What are you really studying?" He leans back to look at her. "The statistical probability of love at first sight.” — Jennifer E. Smith First sight Copy Share Image
“Chemistry wasn't something you could just create anyway; it was either there or it wasn't.” — Jennifer E. Smith Chemistry Copy Share Image
“It took a moment to right himself, and he pulled his shoulders back as he regained his equilibrium. He didn't want to… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“They were like a couple of asteroids that had collided, she and Owen, briefly sparking before ricocheting off again, a little chipped,… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“He’d mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world that it took an e-mail… — Jennifer E. Smith Communication Copy Share Image
“She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.” — Jennifer E. Smith Memories Copy Share Image
“He smiled. "All that stuff can be learned," he said. "What you're doing now, that's instinct. And it counts for a lot.” — Jennifer E. Smith Instinct Copy Share Image
“There’s a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it’s actually a plane, that just last night,… — Jennifer E. Smith Astronomy Copy Share Image
“pg 13 the day ahead of her is like something living and breathing, something that is barreling towards her at an alarming… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“It seemed to Ellie that you could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret—by how safe they… — Jennifer E. Smith Keeping secrets Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if there were more time, or if time were more malleable; if she could be both places at once, live parallel… — Jennifer E. Smith Heart Copy Share Image
“For a long time they just stay there like that, as still as the statues in the garden. And when he gives… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seemed as if his whole life was an exercise in waiting; not waiting to leave, exactly, but simply waiting to… — Jennifer E. Smith Fitness Copy Share Image
“It wasn't long before he spotted another pay phone, a slanted structure near the river, and Annie and Emma waited patiently while… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Emma knew that she'd always been on the wrong side of the line that separated her from her parents, from Patrick and… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“They just stood there, regarding each other silently, the room suddenly as quiet as the elevator had been, as comfortable as the… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“He wondered if there was a rule that you had to love all of someone, or whether you could pick out only… — Jennifer E. Smith Buffet Copy Share Image
“Someone once told her there's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as… — Jennifer E. Smith Breakup Copy Share Image
“That they were left with only this--this awkward, prearranged meet-up, this terrible silence--seemed almost more than she could bear, and the unfairness… — Jennifer E. Smith Longing Copy Share Image
“But she knew it would never happen. She had no intention of visiting him there. Even if she were open to the… — Jennifer E. Smith Divorce Copy Share Image
“And then what?" she asked, though this time the words were quieter, smaller; they were heavy with things unspoken: questions without answers… — Jennifer E. Smith Confidence Copy Share Image
“Near his foot was a map of Gettysburg, and he looked down at the ridges and grooves running across the land. It… — Jennifer E. Smith Gettysburg Copy Share Image
“Emily tucks her knees up beneath her and leans forward on the table. 'Do you like Ryan?' she asks Nick, and Mom's… — Jennifer E. Smith Embarrassment Copy Share Image
“How many times can a life be split into a before and an after?” — Jennifer E. Smith Life Copy Share Image
“There are so many ways to be alone here, even when you're surrounded by this many people.” — Jennifer E. Smith People Copy Share Image
“There’s always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization.” — Jennifer E. Smith Pain Copy Share Image
“This time she didn't bother correcting him. Just this once, she'd like to believe that he's right.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Even the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves.” — Jennifer E. Smith Language Copy Share Image
“You," he says, laughing in spite of himself, "are mad as a hatter.” — Jennifer E. Smith Comedy Copy Share Image
“No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else.” — Jennifer E. Smith Burden Copy Share Image
“Hadley knows this isn’t some Disney movie. Her parents aren’t ever getting back together” — Jennifer E. Smith Child Copy Share Image
“What are you doing a study on right now?" "A study on the statistical probablity of love at first sight.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“There's a space between forgetting and moving on, and it's not easy to find.” — Jennifer E. Smith Forgetting Copy Share Image
