“He looks like a poem. One of those mournfully beautiful ones with short, unfamiliar words that sound ethereal when spoken and completely nonsensical when thought.”
― Young & Beautiful
― Young & Beautiful
“He wants to take it back instantly. But he doesn’t. He just sits there, staring at this tornado of a boy with deep shadows and dark curls and holds his fucking hand like a child, unable to pry himself away”
― Young & Beautiful
― Young & Beautiful
“It's like watching a bird that's been caged its whole existence and is suddenly released, overwhelmed with freedom and life, filling its lungs with what it never dared breathe and filling its eyes with what it never dared see.”
― Young & Beautiful
― Young & Beautiful
“I should like to be the sun. And you can be the moon.’
[...]
‘But then we’d never see each other.’
[...]
‘Not so, young one. The moon shines because of the sun, you know. Because the sun's always there. Just like me.”
― Young & Beautiful
[...]
‘But then we’d never see each other.’
[...]
‘Not so, young one. The moon shines because of the sun, you know. Because the sun's always there. Just like me.”
― Young & Beautiful
“but he can’t seem to look away as he stands among chrysanthemums and daisies on a cobblestone path, the tragic musk of roses settled in the air, staring up at dimly lit windows, searching for a boy who barely exists.”
― Young & Beautiful
― Young & Beautiful
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