256 Quotes by Jennifer E. Smith

You've known for a long time that you want something different. It just took you a while to figure out what it was.

Once upon a time,' she says, looking straight into the camera, 'my grandmother fell in love on a train.' She hesitates, taking a sharp breath. 'Fifty years later, so did I.

Her eyes travel down to where he's gripping the handle of her suitcase. "What're you doing?" she asks, blinking at him."You looked like you needed some help."Hadley just stares at him."And this way it's perfectly legal," he adds with a grin.

It had always been the two of them through everything -every adventure and every expedition- and now there was this awful distance between them, and she tried not to think about all the stories they were missing out on, all the litle moments and bigger milestones that had happened over the past few weeks without the other knowing

Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life, & the idea that could change was unsettling.

Even the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves.

There was a lump in her throat as she watched him fidget with the buttons on his vest, 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.

She suspects Hugo's problem isn't that he can't bear to leave. It's that he hasn't figured out where he wants to go.

Because 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.