“Emma, but--" he began, and I shushed him. "No Emma buts except for the one I sit on.”

“The lightbulb is gone," she said awed. "Emma, you said, 'Lights, begone' and you literally made the lights be gone.""How do I get them back?" I asked, panicked. "What's the opposite of begone? Regone?”

“What I was hungry for was sitting nonchalantly next to me on the couch.”

“The U.S. Postal Service should hire him for an ad campaign. If he were at the mailbox every time you sent a letter, no one would use email ever again.”

“I longed to know what it felt like to have one person eclipse everything bad in your life - be a place of pure joy.”

“I go running in the park all the time. I guess I never looked up.”

“Well I'll be honest...sometimes it's really hard-""I know." I smirked, feeling saucy. "I can tell. I'm pretty much straddling you right now.""Really hard to stop, smart-ass," Brendan emphasized, giving me a playful squeeze before cocking an eyebrow at me.”