Look who’s here. My adoring girlfriend.
I don’t want to have to play catch-up at the end of the day. I need to be a part of his daily life and he needs to be a part of mine.
Time is the longest distance between two places. – TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, The Glass Menagerie.
Peter and I were hanging out and he told me about what you guys were doing today.
So for that split second I thought he was going to say my name. But then I saw the way he blushed, the way he looked off into space, and I knew it wasn’t for me” – Lara Jean.
Is your dad home? I’ll ask him.
God, I don’t know! Quit interrogating me, Peter.
Slowly, deliberately, she says, “The winner gets a wish.” “From who?” Trevor asks. “Everybody?” “From any one of us who are playing.” “Wait.
Yes, of course I know what that means.” I have no idea what that means.
I really wish Kitty were more of a reader like Margot and me.
The perfect chocolate chip cookie should have three rings. The center should be soft and a little gooey. The middle ring should be chewy. And the outer ring should be crispy” -Lara Jean.
It can be tough with best friendships. You’re both growing and changing, and it’s hard to grow and change at the same rate.
It’s the guarantee that no matter what happens to us in the future, this time was ours.
I take a deep breath. “Okay. I can live with that. I mean, who cares about a hot makeout, right? That’s just part of life, right? And you can barely even see my face? You’d have to really know me to know it was me. My full name isn’t on here anywhere, just Lara Jean. There must be a ton of Lara Jeans, right? Right?” Margot.
Sin ti, las emociones de hoy serian incrustaciones del ayer.
When something that terrible, that horrible happens to you, you don’t want to talk about it with anyone. You want to bury it deep inside you and let it rest in peace. You want to forget it ever happened.
I just wouldn’t want it to be less special, after we do it. I want it to always be a sacred thing, not something to take for granted because everybody else does it, or because we’ve done it before. I suppose anything can become ordinary or commonplace if you do it enough times, but my hope is that this never is. Not for us.
Ese es todo el punto de una aventura. Empacar ligero y resolver el resto cuando lo necesite.
She beams at me. “See? There’s a lot to be excited about. And don’t forget the Cheese Shop.” The.
The Cheese Shop is a specialty food store right by campus, and they sell cheese, obviously, but also fancy jams and bread and wine and gourmet pastas. They make really great roast beef sandwiches with a house dressing – a mayonnaisey mustard that I have tried to duplicate at home, but nothing tastes as good as in the shop, on their fresh bread.