Elisa

“She’s pretty, but her face doesn’t transform into sunlight when she talks about music.” He did that clench thing with his jaw and said, “She’s funny, but not spit-out-your-drink-in-astonishment funny.” It felt like my heart was going to explode as his eyes moved down to my lips under the glow of the buzzing streetlight. He moved his face a little closer to mine, looked into my eyes, and rumbled, “And when I see her, I don’t feel like I have to talk to her or mess up her hair or do something—anything—to get her to swing that gaze on me.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“And, finally, to all the girls who’ve ever been doubted or not believed. I know how that feels. These books are for all of you.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“It doesn’t matter that love ends. It just matters that there’s love.”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing

“The problem with broken hearts isn’t that they kill you. It’s that they don’t”
― Nicola Yoon, Instructions for Dancing