Mary

“...because there will never be any boy's wrist to tie the balloon of your helium heart to (it has floated high far away from the heavy stone of that unnameable boy in chicago), you would never be with someone and then someone else, and you would definitely never be someone to someone else's else.”
― Terra Elan McVoy, After the Kiss

“I was hiding my heart and you were hiding yours too and we played hide and seek together and both of us lost.”
― Terra Elan McVoy, After the Kiss

“Mass is not proportional to volume.
A girl as small as a violet. A girl who moves like a flower petal is pulling me toward her with more force than her mass.
Just then, like Newton’s apple, I rolled toward her without stopping until I fell on her, with a thump. With a thump.
My heart keeps bouncing between the sky and the ground.
It was my first love.”
― Kim In Yook, 사랑의 물리학

“I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…”
― Terra Elan McVoy, The Summer of Firsts and Lasts