'Forgetting sounds careless, as though I've merely misplaced my memories of you by somehow not working hard enough to remember them.'

'His kiss at the end of the evening is soft, but definite. Like a bookmark. It says we're pausing here, but we are to resume. And the certainty sends a glorious shiver down my spine.'

'If she kept a journal – which she hasn't done for years – she knows that life up to this moment would be punctuated by a big fat full-stop. And now she wants to turn the page.'

This collection of stories is about love in its various forms. Yes, there's romance - the falling in and falling out of love - but there's also self-deception, regret and fear. Love can be a mirage we want to believe is real, but which only later we accept was never really there. Often it's messy, full of misunderstandings and mistakes. It can give us courage, or make us turn and run. But even if the details become hazy, we never truly forget love.