51.

And I throw my heart into the fire
'Cos I want to set my heart on fire
And I watch it try befriending embers
But the ice don't melt in mid-December.

Mother Mother
from O My Heart

50.

In another town the light fills my room
In another town
They're painting my moon
In another town
I won't see it soon
In another town
I know
I know
I know

I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you
I love you

Regina Spektor
from Another Town

49.

"The whole world was a blur except for your face."

Philip Beard
from Dear Zoe

48.

"But love is this really powerful thing that everyone's got if they'd just learn how to accept it."

Philip Beard
from Dear Zoe

47.

"Maybe 'Z' is the shape of everyone's life.  You're going along in what feels like a straight line, headed for one horizon, the only one as far as you know, and then something happens, maybe something good, maybe something terrible, or maybe just something like seeing a guy picking out a cantaloupe at the store, something that feels like nothing, and all of a sudden you're headed at another horizon altogether.  Good things can happen that you did nothing to deserve.  Bad things can happen that aren't really anyone's fault.  And it's sad how, if you let yourself, it's so much easier to think about what you've lost instead of what you have left."

Philip Beard
from Dear Zoe

46.

"But the moment had passed and I had missed it because I hadn't seen it coming, just like always."

Philip Beard
from Dear Zoe

45.

"It seems like I never figure things out.  Stuff just happens to me and then I see how I should have seen it coming.  I hope that changes when you get to be an adult.  I don't want to live my whole life afraid of what's going to happen next."

Philip Beard
from Dear Zoe

44.

"I fell harder in love with Jimmy every day, partly because it felt so good to let myself do that, to feel something so extreme that wasn't sadness.  And he never acted afraid.  He just kept accepting it as if he expected everything I said or did and was just waiting for it to happen and saying, 'What took you so long, Tess?'"

Philip Beard
from Dear Zoe