You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you’ll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.
Hey, Cath. Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?
I’ll always be less than you,” he whispers. “I know; it’s a dream come true.
She had the kind of smile you see in toothpaste commercials, where you can see practically all of somebody’s teeth. She should smile like that all the time, Park thought; it made her face cross over from weird to beautiful. He wanted to make her smile like that constantly.
Maybe all the bad stuff happens in the wrinkles, but all the good stuff does, too...
That’s what people say – ‘it’s not goodbye’ – when they’re too afraid to face what they’re really feeling. I’m not going to see you tomorrow, Park – I don’t know when I’ll see you again. That deserves more than ’it’s not goodbye.
Come on, Snow. Let’s see America.
Levi shouldn’t get to make her feel this way – he shouldn’t even have access to her chest. Levi wasn’t her boyfriend. He wasn’t family. She didn’t choose him.
So this is what you look like when you’re keeping a giant secret from me – exactly the same as usual.
I don’t believe that 17-year-olds get happy endings. They get beginnings.
It was a pretty good strategy for most social situations: show up, fall back, let somebody else break the ice and take the spotlight. Somebody else always would. Extroverts were nothing if not dependable.
It means... I really like you.′ His hand was in his hair again. Holding it back. ‘Like, really like you. And I want that kiss to be the start of something. Not the end.
You’re here now. Be here now.
They fell in love the way you do the first time, when you’re young, and you feel as if you have nothing and everything to lose.
Or maybe I work at Starbucks,” he said. She snorted. “Really?” “Really,” he said, still smiling. “Someday you’ll need health insurance, and you won’t think working at Starbucks is funny.
Like realizing toward the end of a logic puzzle that you’d made a mistake early on, and that there’s no way to reach the solution without starting over. Without erasing everything. Without throwing out all of your assumptions.
And one will come to end us. And one will bring his fall. Let the greatest power of powers reign. May it save us all.
I inherited it. I’m genetically programmed to be a terrible person.
When she sat down to write, she didn’t have to wade back into the story slowly, waiting to get used to the temperature.
Mom, do you find Tom Cruise attractive?” His mother set down her chisel. She looked at Lincoln as if she was trying to decide whether he was “Meadow Path” or lime. “Honey, do you find Tom Cruise attractive?” “Mom. No. Why would you ask that? Jesus.” “Why would you ask that?” “I asked if you found Tom Cruise attractive. I didn’t ask if you thought I was gay. Do you think I’m gay?