“The only time it doesn't help to imagine the sky is when you're thirty thousand feet in the air with nowhere to… — 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… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“But at the moment, he’s just watching them with an unreadable expression, his head tilted to one side. When she catches his… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“It wasn't that we forgot. But things like that sometimes get stored away, and there never seems to be a good time… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“It was exactly as he’d thought it would be, like the first time and the millionth time all at once, like being… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Something like that," he said, his eyes shining, and she realized just how much there was she didn't know about him. He… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“You say you can be honest with me?” Hadley asks after a moment, addressing Oliver’s rounded shoulders, and he twists to look… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Look what a hard time I've given him. But no matter how many times I've pushed him away, he always comes back… — Jennifer E. Smith 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 Copy Share Image
“But though she’s told a longer version of the story a thousand times before to a thousand different people, she gets the… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“And for the first time in his life Peter understood what the opposite of lost was: that it had nothing to do… — Jennifer E. Smith 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 Copy Share Image
“But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy's eyes are searching hers… — Jennifer E. Smith 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 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
“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
“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 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 Copy Share Image
“It’s time to move on, and the more time they spend wishing it were otherwise, the harder it will be to let… — Jennifer E. Smith 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
“She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“But it’s more than that. It’s the same icy dread that fills her each time she starts to imagine it; not just… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Maybe growing up was really nothing more than growing away: from your old life, from your old self, all those things that… — 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
