01UndatedIt's just one more thing she hadn't considered, and as the idea of it settles over her, she realizes again how entwined their lives are. They're like two trees whose branches have grown together. Even if you pull them out by the trunks, they're still going to be twisted and tangled and nearly impossible to separate at the roots.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
02UndatedJust like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
03UndatedMaybe this was why Owen had been so desperate to travel, why she'd longed for it herself without ever really knowing why. It wasn't just that you got to be somewhere else entirely. It was that you got to be someone else entirely, too.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
04Undatedand the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
05UndatedThey were just so different, and she kept wondering if he'd realize this was a mistake at some point; if, once she stopped being the novelty, the random American, he would recognize who she really was -- a nerdy bookworm, a happy loner -- and move on.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
06Undated...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
07UndatedBecause even this --being so close to her --was no longer the same. That light he'd felt when he first saw her --he understood now that it was only a lightbulb. It was quick and easy, full of electricity, but there was something artificial about it. What he wanted was fire: heat and spark and flame.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
08UndatedJust because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
10UndatedAnd the geography of the thing--the geography of them--was completely and hopelessly wrong.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
11UndatedBut the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness , like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now. And that's something Hadley can understand, too, and so after a moment she nods in agreement, and he tips the suitcase forward onto it's wheels, and they begin to walk.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
12UndatedAnd being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
13UndatedShe filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
14UndatedChildhood memories were like airplane luggage; no matter how far you were traveling or how long you needed them to last, you were only ever allowed two bagsJennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
15UndatedClare's been called a lot of things- smart and funny, driven and talented- but memorable certainly isn't one of them. The most important things about her- the ones she's most proud of- are apparent only once you get to know her.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
16UndatedSomeone once told her 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. Hadley has her doubts about how accurate this could possibly be, a calculation so simple for something as complicated as heartbreak.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
17UndatedIs it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
18UndatedHe'd thought this was the start of something. But clearly she'd changed her mind, and he felt stunned by home quickly the whole thing had unraveled, the end coming before the beginning really even had a chance to begin.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
19UndatedThere are different kinds of happy, some kinds don't need any proof-Ellie O'Neill, This is What Happy Looks LikeJennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
20UndatedWe have all sorts of words that could describe us. But we get to choose which ones are most important.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
21UndatedThis," I say softly, "is going to change everything."I don't mean it the way I usually do.I don't mean that change is hard or scary, though it's definitely both.I mean only to say this: that sometimes, through good luck or bad, through curses or fate, the world cracks itself open, and afterward nothing will ever be the same.All I mean is that this seems like one of those times.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
22UndatedEven the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
23UndatedSuddenly, it seemed there were about a million times he was supposed to have kissed her, even without the benefit of a script, even without any sort of direction.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
24UndatedThere’s a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it’s actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them.Jennifer E. Smith / quote ↗
