An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others.

A good fragrance is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.

Whether we like it or not, we all come from someplace. And at some point in our lives, we have to make peace with that place.

They're comparing apples to oranges.

....or drive up to his parents' house, one of you plugging into the car's stereo an outlandish playlist, with which you would both sing along, loudly, being extravagantly silly as adults the way you never were as children. As you got older, you realize that really, there were very few people you truly wanted to be around for more than a few days at a time, and yet here you were with someone you wanted to be around for years, even when he was at his most opaque and confusing.

She was surprised at how deflating his presence was.