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“How did you know I was freezing?” I ask, turning to him in wonder.
“Because I know you,” he says simply.”

“None of it was an accident”

“I could love him anywhere, in any city, any season”

“brace myself for the moment the makeup artist stepped back, prepare for the possibility that I would have to redo my eyeliner myself because they weren’t sure how to work with the shape.”

I FEEL SO SEEN

“Do you know the Mandarin word for crush?”
“Anlian,” he says. “An for ‘darkness.’ Lian for ‘love.’ I always thought it was poetic—that when you secretly have feelings for someone, you love them in the darkness. But there’s this other word. Minglian.
“I don’t love you in the darkness; I love you in the light.”

OHHH

“I just knew that I noticed you a lot from the beginning. Like how you would wear a different scrunchie every day of the week, or how you’d always pick out the tomatoes from your sandwiches, or how you were far from a teacher’s pet, but you still made sure to thank the teachers at the end of the lesson.”

KAMAKAKAKAKAKA TO BE LOVED IS TO BE KNOWN

“It’s very easy to fall in love with you, Leah. The easiest thing in the world.”

OOOOHHHHH COOOLLLL

“You look at her like you’re seeing the moon for the first time or some shit”

PLSPLSPLSPLSPLS

“The only thing I ask is that we don’t ever become strangers, because I really—” He breaks off. Clenches his jaw, fighting against some ineffable emotion. “I don’t think I could bear it, Leah. I don’t think my heart would be able to survive it.”

GHIS IS SO MESSED UP

“It’s like he’s reached into my brain and peered at the mess there and gently untangled everything.”

OH GOODNESS