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It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

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Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.

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Joe closed his hand over the watch and it was still warm from his father's pocket, ticking against his palm like a heart.

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Lately, though, he'd just been tired in general. Tired of people. Tired of books and TV and the nightly news and songs on the radio he'd heard years b...more

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The harsh light above them caught her face, and Sean could see what she'd look like when she was much older - a handsome woman, scarred by wisdom she ...more

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Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.

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She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and ...more

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Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosages of dangerous medicine but through an honest rec...more

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One that society can't forgive, but I can.

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Teddy wondered, and not for the first time, not by a long shot, if this was the day that missing her would finally be too much for him.