She understands now what she, in all her worry, had forgotten. That even as she hesitates and wavers, even as she thinks too much and moves too cautiously, she doesn't always have to get it right. It's okay to look back, even as you move forward.
Jennifer E. SmithTags: time moving-forward
Beside her, she can feel each breath he draws. How is it possible to be so close to a person and still not know what you are to each other? With baseball, it's simple. There's no mystery to what happens on the field because everything has a label -- full count, earned run, perfect game -- and there's a certain amount of comfort in this terminology. There's no room for confusion and Ryan wishes now that everything could be so straightforward. But then Nick pulls her closer, and she rests her head on his chest, and nothing seems more important that this right here.
Jennifer E. SmithTags: love relationships baseball
Talking to you is one of my favorite things to do."
"Top 10?" she asked.
"Top 5 at least," he said with a wink.
She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.
Jennifer E. SmithTags: memories
People talk about books being an escape, but here on the tube, this one feels more like a lifeline...The motion of the train makes her head rattle, but her eyes lock on the words the way a figure skater might choose a focal point as she spins, and just like that, she's grounded again.
Jennifer E. SmithNot everyone makes it fifty-two years, and if you do, it doesn't matter that you once stood in front of all those people and said that you would. The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.
Jennifer E. SmithThere's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together.
Jennifer E. SmithBut just as she turns to walk away she hears him behind her, the word like the opening of some door, like an ending and a beginning, like a wish.
"Wait," he says, and so she does.
Somehow he'd become the one constant in this whole uneven chapter in her life,
Jennifer E. SmithTags: friendship love
There's a kind of unfamiliar electricity that goes through her at the nearness of him, and she can't help wondering if he feels it, too.
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