Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
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"He looks at her and smiles. "You're sort of dangerous, you know?" She stares at him. "Me?" "Yeah," he says sitting back. "I'm way too honest with you."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"There's always a gap between the burn and the sting of it, the pain and the realization...You can't survive a rift that big without it leaving a mark."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?"
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"Just like when you're young and in love, a seven-hour plane ride can seem like a lifetime."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness, like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"But the crowds are surging around them and her backpack is heavy on her shoulders and the boy's eyes are searching hers with something like loneliness , like the very last thing he wants is to be left behind right now. And that's something Hadley can understand, too, and so after a moment she nods in agreement, and he tips the suitcase forward onto it's wheels, and they begin to walk."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"And being here like this, so suddenly close to him is enough to make her lightheaded. It's a feeling like falling."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"Someone once told her there'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. Hadley has her doubts about how accurate this could possibly be, a calculation so simple for something as complicated as heartbreak."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"Even the not saying can balloon into something bigger than words themselves."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"There’s a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it’s actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"He was giving her the most important thing he could, the only way he knew how. He was a professor, a lover of stories, and he was building her a library in the same way other men might build their daughters houses."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"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."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"As if it were far easier to start over completely than to try to put everything back together again."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
"The idea that their paths might have easily not crossed leaves her breathless, like a near-miss accident on a highway, and she can't help marveling at the sheer randomness of it all. Like any survivor of chance, she feels a quick rush of thankfulness, part adrenaline and part hope."
Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight