“As she begins to roll a joint, 1 look over to the fuchsia bushes and keep my attention there, not on the imperfect way she wears the bikini. Too big in places, and too small in others, and yet she wears it so defiantly that it suits her, like it's supposed to fit wrong. Parts of her are burning in the sun; I will not look. The pride, the nonchalance, the honesty of her body. I could never invite imperfection this way. How well she wears it.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“It started a few weeks ago in her garden, a few innocent hours of sunbathing, which has mutated into me offering her every free minute that I have.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“It's a shame that you can't even come out to me.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“And a naïve part of me thinks that since we have made it this far, we will make it forever. If we existed for even a second, we could exist eternally.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
“Years from now, I will say that tonight was the night I knew that she was the girl I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. This is about more than her body, her tanned skin, her perfect mouth. I am in love with her blood, with her smell, with intangible things that I will never hold – her laugh, her anger, her soul. She kisses me, and she has a thousand reasons to be upset with me, but tonight she is not upset. She just keeps saying, “I love you, I love you, I love you, in this life and the next and the last”.”
― Sunburn
― Sunburn
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