“And then, because I’m now the one thinking too much, and because she is different from all other girls and because I really, really don’t want to screw this up, I concentrate on kissing her on the banks of the Blue Hole, in the sunshine, and I let that be enough.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“I close the doors and yank off my sweater, and she pulls off her shirt, and I say, “You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.” My”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“me—everything might just explode. I keep my eyes on the road. “You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything.” “But I thought you didn’t like me.” And then I look at her. She raises an eyebrow at me. I”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“Because it’s not a lie if it’s how you feel.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“For once, I don’t want to be anyone but Theodore Finch, the boy she sees. He understands what it is to be elegant and euphoric and a hundred different people, most of them flawed and stupid, part asshole, part screwup, part freak, a boy who wants to be easy for the folks around him so that he doesn’t worry them and, most of all, easy for himself. A boy who belongs—here in the world, here in his own skin. He is exactly who I want to be and what I want my epitaph to say: The Boy Violet Markey Loves.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
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