“Trust is important.” “I think it’s more important than love. I mean, I love all kinds of things I don’t trust. Thunderstorms . . . white liquor . . . snakes. Sometimes I think I love them because I can’t trust them, and how mixed up is
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“sometimes people came into your life for brief moments, and changed you forever. I think he was my person.”
― A Novel Love Story
― A Novel Love Story
“Every reader I’d ever known had wanted nothing more than to fall into the arms of a book boyfriend, some fictional Darcy, a shade of a Byronic hero, all their own.”
― A Novel Love Story
― A Novel Love Story
“And he would never stop missing her, because that was what loss was in the end—breaking of a piece off yourself that you’d never get back.”
― A Novel Love Story
― A Novel Love Story
“And I love how you make me want to see the world in color, and I love how I feel when I’m with you. And maybe we won’t work out, but maybe we will—and I’ll run across cities, and I’ll show up with boom boxes outside your window, and I’ll meet you at the tops of buildings, and I’ll kiss you in the rain just to remind you that you’re worth every moment.”
― A Novel Love Story
― A Novel Love Story
“I argued, often, that once a book was done, once it was written and published and sent out into the world, it was no longer yours. It turned into ours—together. You, telling the story, and us, interpreting it.”
― A Novel Love Story
― A Novel Love Story
Forgotten YA Gems
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OFFICIAL GOODREADS GROUP OF THE "BOOKS OUT OF THE BLUE" DISCORD SERVER! I love doing impromptu readathons, but they're not as much fun without buddie ...more
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