“I don’t usually feel, and so I don’t know how to respond to a real feeling in my body instead of a manufactured one.”
― The Start of Us
― The Start of Us
“I’m drawn to the imperfection in him amidst all that surface pretty.”
― The Start of Us
― The Start of Us
“I fight the urge to smile stupidly at him, since he’s beautiful and probably the recipient of a lot of stupid smiles.”
― The Start of Us
― The Start of Us
“I’m rewarded with another sweet smirk, and the knowledge that I like this kind of back and forth when no one is paying for me, when I’m not pretending to like someone, when there’s no exchange of power or money or goods. When we are just a guy and a girl spending an hour together on a Wednesday night in the Village in Manhattan,”
― The Start of Us
― The Start of Us
“Maybe we just need to find the daring in the every day,” he says,”
― The Thrill of It
― The Thrill of It
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