Then she kissed him. He loved it when she kissed him first.
Because it doesn’t matter to me, Park. If you like me, she said, I swear to God, nothing else matters.
Maybe she didn’t want him like he wanted her. But even if she wanted him half as much...
Don’t pigeonhole me, Georgie. I’m infinite.
You choose to be my friend every day that you show up. And I choose to be yours.
Really,” Neal said. That’s what he always said when he didn’t have anything to say and he just wanted her to keep talking. There was a smile that went with it, sort of a mocking smile that would have seemed mean if his eyes weren’t shining.
Everybody likes Star Wars,” he said. “Everybody likes everything these days. The whole world is a nerd.
The whole sky was the color of her skin.
He cocks an eyebrow and stares at me, like figuring out what’s wrong with me is something he’ll never have enough time for.
I’ve tried it a few times, when I’m alone in the car. But I never get past small talk. I feel sort of like I’m invading the baby’s space or like it’s going to wonder, after two months of respectful silence, why I’ve suddenly decided we need to get all personal with each other.
You mean we could get together, and, like, recreationally make succotash?
Now, he felt the fight rising up in his throat whenever he thought of people making fun of her.
Troy and Sandra and Gabe acted out a lightsaber battle that brought tears to Elena’s eyes, probably because they were all three singing the John Williams music.
Best of all, she had Park’s songs in her head – and in her chest, somehow.
It’s like, when you’re going out to dinner and you don’t really care where you go, but the other person really wants to go to the Chinese buffet. Maybe you don’t love the Chinese buffet, but it’s kind of rude to argue when you don’t even really care.
I’m your friend. And friends don’t let friends live small lives.
As long as she was worrying about it, it probably wasn’t going to happen. Like anxiety vaccine. Like watching a pot to make sure it never boiled.
Bad things happen, and then they stop, but they keep on wreaking havoc inside of people.
Nebraska’s like Kansas. But in color.
I can’t explain how it’s different. Why kissing is easy, and being kissed is like being suffocated.