Donna Freitas

“I've barely been able to think about anything else.''Other than...' He waited for me to finish.'Kissing you, dummy,' I said.'Really?''You shouldn't be that surprised,' I said.He grinned. 'I'm just glad to know we're on the same page.”

“I wish I could bottle this,' I whispered.'And drink it every morning.''And every day at lunch, and then again at dinner, and before bed.''You'd get sick of it,' he said.I shook my head. 'Never.''Seriously,' he said. 'I want to freeze this moment.''Good thing you don't need to.''No?''Will Doniger, there is nothing in the entire universe that could make me stop wanting to be with you. And so on and so forth ad infinitum.”

“Life was fragile and love was, too. At any moment, even our happiest ones, our world could shatter and we wouldn’t see it coming. There was only more loss ahead, showing its ugly face when we least expected it.”

“The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will’s arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.”

“Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?”

“It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.”

“To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.”

“Was he going to ask me to go with him? Maybe I was getting ahead of myself and he was just making conversation. Oh, why was talking to a boy so fraught with complication?”