“Chocolate Cherry Fixer-Uppers”

“Being with Josh is like being touched from the inside out. An unexpected blaze of sunshine on an otherwise bleak winter day. Wrapping your fingers around a mug of hot chocolate after walking home in that frigid lake-effect wind. A fire crackling softly beneath your outstretched hands. The perfect combination of cupcake and icing, the kind where you can’t quite identify all the secret ingredients, but you feel them melting together on your tongue, and you know that for as long you live, this will be the best thing you’ve ever tasted.”

“It's rally bad when dads cry.”

“They say true genius often strikes in the pale moments between awake and asleep.”

“Explanations take the mystery out of things, right?”

“No one wants to do it with a chick who smells like bacon." Her brow creases. "Everybody loves bacon.”

“Tonight, when Frankie sits at the table and innocently knocks over her glass of Diet Coke, Aunt Jayne starts to cry, and the translucent veil of general okayness evaporates to reveal the honest, ugly parts underneath.”