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"It's not just that. It's like no matter what I do, no matter how much I try, 'll always be scraping by. I'm a goddamn mess."
"You're my mess."

My neck aches from our awkward position, but I can't find it in me to move or care when she looks at me like she's mapping an entire constellation with her eyes.

"I've never said you were difficult, Sage. You're definitely not easy, but I like that about you."

"Then why can't you look at me. It's like you can't stand the sight of me."

"At the risk of saying too much, I don't want to look at you too long because I like it too much."

"It's never going to be just a kiss for me. Once I do this, Sage, I won't be able to stop."

"You shouldn't look at me like that, you know," Sage says.
"Like what?"
"Like I'm yours to look at."
"What if I want to?"
She pauses. "Then you can do a lot more than just look, West-brook."

"You don't seem like the dancing type."
"I'm not. But you are," I say, pressing a kiss in her hair that I don't think she feels.

You know you're hot, Elias. People beg you on a daily basis to take your shirt off."
"Is that what you want to hear, Sage? How hot I think you look in this dress and how much better it would look sliding off your body?"
"Who knew after breaking you out of your shell you'd become such a flirt?"
"I guess it just takes the right woman to come along."
"And I'm the right woman?"
"The perfect one."

"You look beautiful. Unreal."
"Oh," she squeaks. "In that case you look pretty unreal too."

"Don't be scared, Elias. I don't bite," she teases.
I step into her orbit and lean forward to nip her earlobe. "I do."