“How was I supposed to keep living in this town when everything I saw reminded me of someone I'd lost?”
― Since You've Been Gone
― Since You've Been Gone
“We were kissing like it was a long-forgotten language that we'd once been fluent in and were finding again”
― Since You've Been Gone
― Since You've Been Gone
“This felt like the way you get nervous right before something exciting happens-the moment when you're balanced on the top of the roller coaster, the hush before the surprise party, the second after the diving board but before the water, when you can close your eyes and imagine, for just a second, that you're flying. The feeling that good things were coming, almost here, any moment now.”
― Since You've Been Gone
― Since You've Been Gone
“But you can't help who you fall for. The heart wants what it wants.”
― Since You've Been Gone
― Since You've Been Gone
“I was still a little amazed that this was happening. That this, the thing that had seemed so impossible, so terrifying, so utterly beyond me, was happening. I was having fun. And that I was the one who made it happen. "I did it," I said out loud, sendind my voice up to the stars above me, not really caring if the others heard me.”
― Since You've Been Gone
― Since You've Been Gone
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