It didn’t escape me that he couldn’t seem to stop finding reasons to touch me. Nor did I miss that I didn’t want him to stop.
How warm I feel. How icredibly alive and vibrant and heedless every last inch of me feels next to you.
Does this have anything to do with the unit we’re studying? Because I can’t find anything about desired characteristics of a mate anywhere in our text.
I couldn’t picture myself with a boyfriend, but if I had to, I envisioned a nice normal guy who turned in his math homework on time and maybe even played rec baseball.
Vee: And I’m not going to let you sit at home all afternoon with your sour face on. Nora: I don’t have a sour face. Vee: Yes, you do. And you’re wearing it right now. Nora: This is my annoyed face. You woke me up at six in the morning!
Her hair was strawberry blond, and she had the shape of a popsicle stick: turn her sideways and she practically disappeared.
With you, what you see is what you get. And I see cheap.
Kiss me in a way I’ll never forget. Kiss me in a way that will stay with me until see you again.
Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn’t hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.
A girl could lather up in soap like that.
I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.
Are we going to have to teach you to fight, Angel?
I’m not going anywhere near a motel with you.
Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or – ” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.
A feeling of violation swayed inside me, making me feel as if Id been shoved off a high platform without warning. I was falling, and I feared the sensation far more than hitting bottom. There was no end; just a constantsense of gravity having its way with me.
Hate to disappoint, but no feathers. I came to Earth stripped naked.
I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.
But if I hadn’t fallen, I wouldn’t have met you.
I forced a smile. It was the one I’d been practicing all morning. It felt tight at the edges and brittle everywhere in between.
Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn’t either.