“We had slipped into each others lives seamlessly, as though we had known each other for years.”

“You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.”

“As a prominent conservative told me that year, "We need to go out into the wilderness for a long time, and figure out how we can one day return.”

“Was that semi-colon some kind of flirty wink or just bad punctuation?”

“A year. We'd known each other only a year, but we'd lived a lifetime in it.”

“We may not have known each other our whole lives but we've definitely lived them in parallel”

“We were locked onto each other as though we had just discovered this incredible thing you could do with two mouths pressing close and moist against each other. And the taste of him... Horrifyingly, unbearably sweet -- sweet in the way crack must feel hitting the bloodstream of an addict after years of staying clean.”