Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.
Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.
I donβt trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am theyβre going to get tired of me and take off.
I want everyone to meet you. You're my favorite person of all time.
What are the chances youβd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. 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 math seemed impossible.
Happily ever after, or even just together ever after, is not cheesy,β Wren said. βItβs the noblest, like, the most courageous thing two people can shoot for.
You were the sun, and I was crashing into you.
Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.
I love you more than I hate everything else.
The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.
I let myself slip away... Just to stay sane. Just to get through it. And when I felt myself slipping too far, I held on to the one thing I'm always sure of - Blue eyes. Bronze curls. The fact that Simon Snow is the most powerful magician alive. That nothing can hurt him, not even me. That Simon Snow is alive. And I'm hopelessly in love with him.
Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?' 'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.
I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time.
I want someone whose heart is big enough to hold me.
It was the nicest thing she could imagine. It made her want to have his babies and give him both of her kidneys.
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
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. Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.
You don't know when you're twenty-three. You don't know what it really means to crawl into someone else's life and stay there. You can't see all the ways you're going to get tangled, how you're going to bond skin to skin. How the idea of separating will feel in five years, in ten - in fifteen. When Georgie thought about divorce now, she imagined lying side by side with Neal on two operating tables while a team of doctors tried to unthread their vascular systems. She didn't know at twenty-three.
It's more like you meet someone, and you fall in love, and you hope that that person is the oneβand then at some point, you have to put down your chips. You just have to make a commitment and hope that you're right.
She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.
