Jordan

“Maybe we’re like the cherry blossom, Rune. Like shooting stars. Maybe we loved too much too young and burned so bright that we had to fade out.” She pointed behind us, to the blossom grove. “Extreme beauty, quick death. We had this love long enough to teach us a lesson. To show us how capable of love we truly are.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“For believers in true, epic, soul-shattering love. This one’s for you.  ”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“I don’t think, in all my life, that I’ve ever seen two kids love each other so hard so young, and even harder as teens.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses

“She still took my breath away with how beautiful she was. “Hei, Poppymin,” I said and sat on the edge of her bed.

“Hey, baby,” she replied, her voice now barely above a whisper. I brought my hand to hers and pressed a kiss to her mouth.

Poppy smiled and melted my heart. A loud gust of wind blew past the window, whistling against the glass. Poppy inhaled sharply. I turned to see what she was seeing.

A mass of blossom petals went sailing in the wind.

“They’re leaving…,” she said.

I closed my eyes briefly. It was apt that Poppy left the same day that the cherry blossoms lost their petals too.

They were guiding her soul home.”
― Tillie Cole, A Thousand Boy Kisses