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i loved the last page activating my ‘martianvision’ thank you very much

trippy af

“Thank you for listening. I’m sorry I didn’t bring a vase for the flowers. I hope they cheer you up during finals.”

truly a sapphic (in the making) 🤌🏻

“And I’m not saying you loved me, because we’re young and we haven’t known each other that long and I haven’t really earned that sort of feeling from you. But I think—I know—the feeling when I see you is love”

bro does have a way with words

“Look at me,” I whisper.
But Rosa keeps her eyes turned down. She carefully shifts her weight to the unhurt hip and swings at the ball. I don’t move as I watch it roll between me and one of the posts.”


this hopeless angst is so good please i need someone to get it

“As I watch her I suddenly realize Rosa’s not focused—she’s upset. She looks like a girl who just had her own heart stomped on.”

i get now why jocks are considered stupid

“Rosa’s voice cracks, and I immediately spring up from my chair and kneel by her side. “I’m sorry,” I murmur into her leg”

losers in love is an elite genre >>>>>>>>

“Rosa raises an eyebrow at me over her screen. “What?”
I shake my head. “What, what?”
“You’ve been staring at me nonstop for the last thirty minutes.”
“I hardly have that long of an attention span,” I say. I scribble a random word down in my notebook. “Maybe you just wish I was staring at you.”


i live for this kind of banter

I AM ABOUT REARRANGE MY WORLD FOR THIS GIRL? HELLO???

“I want to go on dates with you. I want to be with you. Can you do that, viejito?”


they’re so much like a married couple

“Where are you? I type.
She answers right away.
Fútbolhead: Why do you care?
I sigh and roll my eyes. The lengths I have to go to do something nice for this girl.”


she’s such a softie i am dying actually

“But in the story version, every reader loves you. Every single person is saying, ‘That girl—I want to be like her.’ You exude main character energy.”

ALSO WHAT A THING TO ZAY like EVELYN HOLD UP

“I smile. “Hey, being a viejito has its perks. Who else would keep you grounded?”

The reference seems to throw Rosa off. She blinks a moment, then turns and gazes at me like a hole just tore in the universe.”


THE TENSIONNNN

she’s so soft for her oh my god

“As his fingers rake over my skin, I can feel my mind start to leave my body. I used to think that’s just what people did during sex. Go somewhere else. But lately I’m wondering if that’s not how it’s supposed to work at all.”

“As Rosa shifts me around like a doll, I forget how to breathe, let alone move on my own. Somehow, being touched lightly like this is a million times more overwhelming than getting pummeled with an actual field hockey ball”

i can feel their chemistry dude!!!

“You need to stay the hell away from my team,” I say, pulling the keys. “It’s one thing to go after me, but—”

Rosa looks at me teasingly. “You think I’m going after you?”


this is my dream college sports romance dynamic

“All my focus is dead set on the ball, and Rosa’s hockey stick, and—
A tattoo?”

I LOVE A SIMP

“You’re a senior now. You’re supposed to be your own person. That’s like the definition of a seventeen-year-old. Latin root: dead opposite of the person your parents want you to be.”

damn

boyfriend? 👀

“Americans smile too much, and it means so little. When a German person smiles, you know you have deserved it.” She gave Mallory a ridiculous grin.”


helllo!??😭

“Often, she’d complained that no one called or visited, but whenever someone did, she appeared not to enjoy the company.”

me fr

“How was it, Mallory wondered with tipsy astonishment, that the woman could be self-centered but not vain?”

“I want you to do well in life. You’re smart and you have a wonderful laugh. When you laugh, I want to laugh, too.”

“This felt damning, like a dismissal, yet it was also liberating. To be free of responsibility and expectation meant she could live her life the way she wanted to.”

“I thought we were done with the love letters. I didn’t even read that one. I just put it straight into Vanessa’s locker,”

you idiot

“In reality, I’m touched that she tried to clean the ice cream off my chin, but I have to maintain my tough-girl image.”

lol the tough girl image

“I think Operation Vanessa has officially begun.”

title drop

“Like Cyrano de Bergerac?”

“That hip-hop singer?”

“No, Cyrano de Bergerac is a novel by... well, never mind, he’s not a singer.”

“You want me,” she breathed, the words twisting like an insult. “And you can’t handle it.”


HOTT