"I felt him subtly glance me up and down, quick and fluttery like a moth, as if I was some random girl walking by him on the street and we hadn't been best friends for almost seven years.  It gave me a little shiver.  In a good way, I realized."
-Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna Breslaw

"Besides, I decided, isn't that how falling in love so often works?  Some stranger appears out of nowhere and becomes a fixed star in your universe." 
-Spinster: Making a Life of One's Own by Kate Bolick