“Just like when you're young and in love, a seven hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“The most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Even the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Salutations," he said, and she smiled. "Good morning." "Yeah," he said. "It really is.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
I want my marriage to be like th Earth, full of life and revolving around the Son — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?” — 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
“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
“My thoughts are scrambled by the nearness of him, and my chest aches with something deeper than love, something lonelier than hope..” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
Husbands make the best kinds of heroes. - Lisa JacobsonMarriage is a mosaic you build with your spouse. Millions of tiny moments… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“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 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
“She wishes that it were true, all of it. That it were more than just a story. That is was their story.” — 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." "Very funny,"… — Jennifer E. Smith 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
“There was a lump in her throat as she watched him fidget with the buttons on his vest, and it struck her… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Now Hadley presses her forehead against the window of the taxi and once again finds herself smiling at the thought of him.… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Because even this --being so close to her --was no longer the same. That light he'd felt when he first saw her… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“So you’re just here—” “For a couple of days,” she said, ducking her head. “To see you.” He smiled. “Really?” She nodded,… — Jennifer E. Smith 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 Copy Share Image
“He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" She stares at him. "Me?" "Yeah," he says sitting back.… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
Do everything you can to preserve and protect love so that it endures forever. — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burden of it for any one else.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Well, I guess we all can't have epic loves at such a young age.” — Jennifer E. Smith 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 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 Copy Share Image
“And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes our fights are as strong as a current, as consistent as waves and as stubborn as unmoveable rocks. Martial fights cause… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing… — 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 Copy Share Image
“They were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“The quiet between them had gone on for far too long now to pretend it was anything other than what it was.… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“When you’re on the other side of it,” she says, “fifty-two years can seem like about fifty-two minutes. Just like when you’re… — Jennifer E. Smith 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 Copy Share Image
“He'd come back to her, it was true. He was the one to walk out of the woods and onto the beach, to cross… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Now Hadley presses her forehead against the window of the taxi and once again finds herself smiling at the thought of him. He's like… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“He's looking at her like she's the answer to some sort of riddle.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Well," he begins, sitting up a bit taller, "I was being quite gallant, actually, and offered to help with her suitcase. And then we… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“The only time it doesn't help to imagine the sky is when you're thirty thousand feet in the air with nowhere to go but… — 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 Annie and… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Hadley knows this isn’t some Disney movie. Her parents aren’t ever getting back together” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“If you were to draw a map of the two of them, of where they started out and where they would both end up,… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“She wishes that it were true, all of it. That it were more than just a story. That is was their story.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“There's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“True," he says. "But I'm able to supplement it with my wealth of British intelligence and charm." "Right," Hadley says. "Charm. When do I… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
