But then again maybe "I will" is nicer. It has a future in it. - Gabrielle Zevin

But me-also-thinks my latter-day reaction speaks to the necessity of encountering stories at precisely the right time in our lives. Remember, Maya: the things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life.

But this was classic Sam — he had learned to tolerate the sometimes-painful present by living in the future.

Daddy used to say that calling a person a romantic was just another way of saying he or she acted without regard for conseqences.