You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. - Jodi Picoult

Sometimes there aren't words. The silence between us is flung wide as an ocean. But I manage to reach across it, to wrap my arms around him.

"You don't have to say I love you to say I love you," you said with a shrug. "All you have to do is say my name and I know."

..."Can't you hear it?" you said. "When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth."

The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.