“Talking to you is one of my favorite things to do." "Top 10?" she asked. "Top 5 at least," he said with a wink.” — 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
“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
“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
“The most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.” — Jennifer E. Smith Love 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
“Because I was with you," he tells her. "I feel better when I'm with you.” — 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 Friendship Copy Share Image
“Exactly. How can you know it makes you happy if you’ve never experienced it?” “There are different kinds of happy,” she said.… — Jennifer E. Smith Happiness 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 hates the fact that she won't know. It's feels like the last day of school, the final night at summer camp,… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“There's a kind of unfamiliar electricity that goes through her at the nearness of him, and she can't help wondering if he… — 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 Love Copy Share Image
“The geography of the thing wasn’t the point; it didn’t matter where they were: there was still too much space between them.” — Jennifer E. Smith Geography Copy Share Image
“Graham glanced up at the sky, which was pale and pocked with birds, the whole thing like a negative of yesterday's fireworks… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“But Hadley understood. It wasn't that she was meant to read them all. Maybe someday she would, but for now, it was… — Jennifer E. Smith Children Copy Share Image
“The clouds are thick as cotton and laced in silver from the sun, and she thinks back to what Oliver said on… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“He'd thought this was the start of something. But clearly she'd changed her mind, and he felt stunned by how quickly the… — Jennifer E. Smith Psychology Copy Share Image
“... Wait till next year. I know some people might find this depressing, and are understandable impatient for next year to finally… — Jennifer E. Smith Hopeful Copy Share Image
“When he looked over, Emma had her head tipped back against the tree, and was humming as she watched the clouds move… — 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
“Once," he says, "I was flying to California on the Fourth of July." She turns her head, just slightly. "It was a… — 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 Beginnings Copy Share Image
“There are so many ways it could have all turned out differently.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“There was enough space out here that it was easy to lose sight of each other.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“But no escape route." "Ah," he says. "So you're looking for an escape route." Hadley nods. "Always.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“When there was nothing but space between you, everything felt like a leap.” — Jennifer E. Smith Leap Copy Share Image
“After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.” — Jennifer E. Smith Alone Copy Share Image
“Hadley didn't know it was possible to miss someone who's only a few feet away, but there it is.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“It didn’t help that she was right; when had that ever made anything better?” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“So that explains all the mind games." "You say mind games, I say research.” — Jennifer E. Smith Mind Copy Share Image
“And like every ending, it was a strange mix of exuberance and sorrow.” — Jennifer E. Smith Exuberance 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 Breakup 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… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“The morning felt like a mixing bowl just waiting for its ingredients; there was a sense of possibility to it, a promise… — Jennifer E. Smith Morning Copy Share Image
“I never said I was good,” he told her, taking the pen. “Just that I liked doing it.” “That’s the best kind… — Jennifer E. Smith Writer Copy Share Image
“Eso es lo que tiene viajar en avión. Puedes pasarte horas hablando con una persona y no llegar a conocer su nombre,… — Jennifer E. Smith Amor Copy Share Image
“He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover… — Jennifer E. Smith Books Copy Share Image
“Oliver smiles. "Did you know that people who meet at least three different times within a twenty-four hour period are ninety-eight percent… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
