Jennifer E. Smith

“Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.”

“Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?”

“People who meet in airports are seventy-two percent more likely to fall for each other than people who meet anywhere else.”

“Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?”

“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.”

“Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers.”

“It’s not supposed to reflect reality,” she said. “Reality is all well and good. But sometimes you just want to pretend the world is a better place than it actually is. That great and wonderf...”

“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 of it all welled up inside of her. It...”

“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...”

“Is it later yet?”

“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...”

“People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a f...”