Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away?
The girl looked older than Cath. Even with her eyes closed. Levi’s other hand was tangled in her long, blond hair, and he was kissing her with his mouth smiling and open. He made it look so easy.
How do you even know when you’re anywhere near marrying someone? she wondered. Is that a question about time? Or distance?
Seth was an idiot: Neal wasn’t fat. Just sort of soft-looking. Small and strong without any corners.
Eleanor knew that she was fat, but she didn’t feel that fat. She could feel her bones and muscles just underneath all the chub, and they were big, too. Park’s mom could wear Eleanor’s rib cage like a roomy vest.
But Park’s parents loved each other. They kissed each other on the mouth, no matter who was watching. What were the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back?
Tell me more about the mountains, Georgie said, because she wasn’t really sure what to ask. Because ′ tell me where I went wrong’ might break the spell.
The next morning, when Eleanor got on the bus, there was a stack of comics on her seat.
What’s wrong with Starbucks?” – Levi Stewart.
I don’t want to kiss a stranger. I’m not interested in lips out of context.
Park looked good in black. It made him look like he was drawn in charcoal. Thick, arched, black eyebrows. Short, black eyelashes. High, shining cheeks.
I never feel like laughing when things are funny,” he said. “I just think to myself, ‘Now, that’s funny.
I want to go out with Mikey... He’s the guy in the Life cereal commercial who hates everything. If Mikey likes you, you know you’re good. If Mikey likes you, it means something.
Everybody needs to stop saying that. You don’t get to be the mother if you show up after the kids are already grown up.
Or maybe she’d just change her concentration from Creative Writing to Renaissance Lit; that would be useful in the real world, a head full of sonnets and Christ imagery. If you study something that nobody cares about, does that mean everyone will leave you alone?
Ben Affleck! Are you sure I can’t talk you into Matt Damon? We could double-date.
I’m sorry, too,” she said. “For what?” “For acting mad at you all the time.
You’d rather be broken than move on.
I only let people see the tip of my crazy iceberg. Underneath this veneer of crazy and socially inept, I’m a complete disaster.
But she made his comics smell like roses. A whole field of them.