I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.
Other people are usually wrong.
In my rush, I hadn’t tied my shoelaces. Noah was now tying them for me. He looked up at me through his dark fringe of lashes and smiled. The expression on his face melted me completely. I knew I had the goofiest grin plastered on my lips, and didn�...
He didn't look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noah--sarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah--cared. And that made him real.
You're supposed to say, 'All I want is your happiness. I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'" "Sorry," Noah said. "I'm just not that big of a person.
Something inside of me began to tear.
...while Daniel disappeared into his room, probably to limn the contours of some exquisite constellation of philosophical nonsense for his internship applications and gasp in the throes of his overachieving OCDness.
I was warned about you, you know." And with that half-smile that wrecked me, Noah said, "But you're here anyway.
Noah's eyes held my face. I swallowed hard. The juxtaposition of him sitting in a room full of people while staring at no one but me was overwhelming. Something shifted inside of me at the intimacy of us, eyes locked amid the scraping of twenty graph...
You are like fire; you will burn wherever you go. If contained, channeled, you can bring light, but you will also always cast a shadow.
Ow." "You had a mosquito." "No, I didn't.
Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.
You are what happiness means to me. And I would rather have today with you than forever with anyone else.
Maybe sometimes we can only see the truth about ourselves if someone shows us where to look.
I'll love you to ruins.
You think it can't get worse than wanting someone and not having them, but it can. You can want someone, have them, and want them more. Still. Always. You can never get enough.
If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scares.
I'd wasted so much time wishing I could be different, wishing I could change things, change myself...I thought it would be easier to be someone else than to be who I was becoming, but I didn't think that anymore
Does anyone know how to start a fire?" Blank stares. "So we can't start a fire," [Jamie] said. "We can't fly. We can't create a force field. We are the most bullshit superheroes.
Jamie said in that voice of his, "You never saw us." "I never saw you," the driver repeated, sounding dazed. "You drove this astonishingly hot underwear model from south Texas. You wanted to lick his abs." "I wanted to lick his abs." "You're such an ...
I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.
