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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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H. Jackson Brown Jr. (P.S. I Love You)
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Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they’re not. There’s no telling how long you will have them near.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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what a luxury it was for people to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Their plan had been very simple: to stay together for the rest of their lives.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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I know now that I don’t want to love or be loved in half measures. I want it all, and to have it all, you have to risk it all.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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When you lose someone and it still hurts, that's when you know the love was real.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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There’s a Korean word my grandma taught me. It’s called jung. It’s the connection between two people that can’t be severed, even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings for them; you can’t ever completely shake them loose of you; you will always have tenderness in your heart for them.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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...God leads you to it and takes you through it.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Sometimes there is only one thing left to say, P. S. I Love You....
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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H. Jackson Brown Jr. (P.S. I Love You)
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So I take Peter’s hand; I put it on my heart. I tell him, “You have to take good care of this, because it’s yours.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Things feel like they'll be forever, but they aren't. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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I say, “In the contract we said we wouldn’t break each other’s hearts. What if we do it again?” Fiercely he says, “What if we do? If we’re so guarded, it’s not going to be anything. Let’s do it fucking for real, Lara Jean. Let’s go all in. No more contract. No more safety net. You can break my heart. Do whatever you want with it.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Lara Jean, I think you half-fall in love with every person you meet. It’s part of your charm. You’re in love with love.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.
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H. Jackson Brown Jr. (P.S. I Love You)
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There are two kinds of girls in this world. The kind who breaks hearts and the kind who gets her heart broken.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Sometimes I like you so much I can’t stand it. It fills up inside me, all the way to the brim, and I feel like I could overflow. I like you so much I don’t know what to do with it. My heart beats so fast when I know I’m going to see you again. And then, when you look at me the way you do, I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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She needed to talk, she needed to cry, she needed to vent all her frustrations and disappointments.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained.
And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued.
Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
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Cecelia Ahern (PS, I Love You)
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You have to let yourself be fully present in every moment. Just be awake for it, do you know what I mean? Go all in and wring every last drop out of the experience.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experience downs?
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Finding someone you love and loves you back is a wonderful feeling. But finding a true soulmate is an even better feelin. A soulmate is someone who understands you like no other will be there for you forever no matter what.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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I don’t think it was our time then. I guess it isn’t now, either.” John looks over at me, his gaze steady. “But one day maybe it will be.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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I still don't think it's pathetic to cry over someone. It just means you care about them deeply and you're sad.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
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H. Jackson Brown Jr. (P.S. I Love You)
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Us," Peter corrects. "I did it for us." He links our fingers together. "It's you and me, kid.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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In memory, everything seems to happen to music.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Don't mind all those people who say that you should be back to normal in a month or two. Grieving is all part of helping yourself anyway.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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If two people are meant to be, they'll find their way to each other.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath lightly blowing her hair and tickling her head.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.
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Cecelia Ahern
“
It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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On the other hand, she was a women with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories. Whether it happened in ten months or ten years, Holly would obey Gerry's final message. Whatever lay ahead, she knew she would open her heart and follow where it led.
In the meantime, she would just live.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
“
If this is love, no thanks. I don’t want any part of it. When I’m older, I’m just going to do my own thing. If I like a boy, fine, I’ll date him, but I’m not going to sit at home and cry over him. I cry over important things.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. I wish not to cry.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Her best friend was gone and nobody understood that no amount of makeup, fresh air or shopping was going to fill the hole in her heart.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Seeming and being are not one and the same.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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I’ve heard people say that the more you like someone, the more you think they are beautiful even if you didn’t think so in the beginning.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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A girl’s relationship with her father is the most important male relationship of her life.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Did you know I always thought you were braver than me? Did you ever guess that that was why I was so afraid? It wasn't that I only loved some of you. But I wondered if you could ever love more than some of me.
I knew I'd miss you. But the surprising thing is, you never leave me. I never forget a thing. Every kind of love, it seems, is the only one. It doesn't happen twice. And I never expected that you could have a broken heart and love with it too, so much that it doesn't seem broken at all. I know young people look at me and think my youth seems so far away, but it's all around me, and you're all around me. Tiger Lily, do you think magic exists if it can be explained? I can explain why I loved you, I can explain the theory of evolution that tells me why mermaids live in Neverland and nowhere else. But it still feels magic.
The lost boys all stood at our wedding. Does it seem odd to you that they could have stood at a wedding that wasn't yours and mine? It does to me. and I'm sorry for it, and for a lot, and I also wouldn't change it.
It is so quiet here. Even with all the trains and the streets and the people. It's nothing like the jungle. The boys have grown. Everything has grown. Do you think you will ever grow? I hope not. I like to think that even if I change and fade away, some other people won't.
I like to think that one day after I die, at least one small particle of me - of all the particles that will spread everywhere - will float all the way to Neverland, and be part of a flower or something like that, like that poet said, the one that your Tik Tok loved. I like to think that nothing's final, and that everyone gets to be together even when it looks like they don't, that it all works out even when all the evidence seems to say something else, that you and I are always young in the woods, and that I'll see you sometime again, even if it's not with any kind of eyes I know of or understand. I wouldn't be surprised if that is the way things go after all - that all things end happy. Even for you and Tik Tok. and for you and me.
Always,
Your Peter
P.S. Please give my love to Tink. She was always such a funny little bug.
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Jodi Lynn Anderson (Tiger Lily)
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She was a woman who made mistakes, who sometimes cried on a Monday morning or at night alone in bed. She was a woman who often became bored with her life and found it hard to get up for work in the morning. She was a woman who more often than not had a bad hair day, who looked in the mirror and wondered why she couldn't just drag herself to the gym more often; she was a woman who sometimes questioned what reason had she to live on this planet. She was a woman who sometimes just got things wrong.
On the other hand, she was a woman with a million happy memories, who knew what it was like to experience true love and who was ready to experience more life, more love and make new memories.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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...When I get you back, I’m gonna put that necklace back around your neck and pin you.” He tries to hold my eyes with his own. 'Like the 1950s.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” —MARGERY WILLIAMS
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Have you ever not known something but known it at the same time?
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Cecelia Ahern (How to Fall in Love: An inspiring, feel-good romantic novel from the international best selling author of PS, I Love You)
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He looks at me in such a way that I know for sure-he's never looked at another girl quite like this.
And the I'm in his arms, and we're hugging and kissing, and we're both shaking,because we both know-this is the night we become real.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.
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Cecelia Ahern
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And nobody had told them that they were short on time.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Don’t let it happen to you, Lara Jean. Don’t get too serious to where things can’t go back. Be in love with Peter if you want, but be careful with your heart. Things feel like they’ll be forever, but they aren’t. Love can go away, or people can, without even meaning to. Nothing is guaranteed.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
“
you will always be my favorite hello and hardest goodbye.
P.S. i will always love you
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Cecelia Ahern
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You can't judge who you love the most by how long you love them.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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So many objects, so many memories. Each was being labelled and packed away in bags just as it was in her mind. To be stored in an area that would sometime be called upon to teach and help in future life.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.
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Cecelia Ahern (How to Fall in Love: An inspiring, feel-good romantic novel from the international best selling author of PS, I Love You)
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There´s no way to protect yourself against heartbreak. That's just a part of life.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
“
I deserve better than that, you know? I deserve . . . I deserve to be someone's number one girl."
"You are."
"No, I'm not. She is. You're still protecting her, her secret, whatever that is. From what, though? From me? What have I ever done to her?
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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But you're the most special to me, because you're the girl I love, Lara Jean
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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People say absence makes the heart grow fonder, but I think they’re wrong: Proximity makes the heart grow fonder.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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I can see now that it’s the little things, the small efforts, that keep a relationship going. And I know now too that in some small measure I have the power to hurt him and also the power to make it better.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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You know how I know she's your most important person? You pick her every time.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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There is absolutely nothing wrong with returning to the house you grew up in every now and again. It's good for the soul.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
“
Things have a way of settling back.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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He kisses like . . . like it could be his job.” Margot giggles and lifts the spoons off her eyes. “Like a male prostitute?
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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I'm a million different things every day of the week.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
“
what a luxury it was for people to be
able to hold their loved ones whenever they wanted.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Warring for peace is like screwing for virginity!!
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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That's life. Things don't always work out.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
“
How about, 'I just kissed a guy at Black Weeds because you've been ignoring me. P.S. I love you.
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Jeri Smith-Ready (Shade (Shade, #1))
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One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Peter. Peter Kavinsky.” Even saying his name is a remembered pleasure, something to savor, like a piece of chocolate dissolving on my tongue.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.
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Cecelia Ahern (PS, I Love You)
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I could fall in love with you so easily. I’m halfway there already. You’re so perfect in my memory, and you’re perfect now. It’s like I dreamed you into being. Of all the boys, you’re the one I would pick.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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We broke so easily. Like it was nothing. Like we were nothing. Does that mean it was never meant to be in the first place? That we were an accident of fate? If we were meant to be, how could we both walk away like that?
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at. I won't do any more than I want to do.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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You're not my best friend. You're my sister, and that's more.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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She never seemed to be truly happy; she just seemed to be passing time while she waited for something else. She was tired of just existing; she wanted to live.
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Cecelia Ahern (PS, I Love You)
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You can't be close to someone, not truly, with secrets in between you.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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you don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person you cannot live without
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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One day soon you'll be in the world, and you'll have so many options you won't know what to do with them. Everyone will fall in love with you, because you're so beautiful and so charming, and you'll look back on high school as such a tiny blip.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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But Holly, nobody’s life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn’t be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs?
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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nobody's life is filled with perfect little moments. And if it were, they wouldn't be perfect little moments. They would just be normal. How would you ever know happiness if you never experienced downs?
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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Like snow globes, you shake them up, and for a moment everything is upside down and glitter everywhere and it's just like magic - but then it all settles and goes back to where it's supposed to be.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Words brought us together though they almost kept us apart.
You trusted me with your secrets and then you stole my heart.
They say that love is rare, like …
“What’s rare?” I asked.
“What?” His eyes lifted from the page and met mine.
“What are some things that are rare?”
“Meat?”
I laughed. “We’re more alike than you know.
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Kasie West (P.S. I Like You)
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For a minute there it was really good. It was really, really good. Wasn't it good? Maybe really, really good things aren't meant to last for too long; maybe that's what makes them all the more sweet, the temporariness of them.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Your body is yours to protect and to enjoy.” She raises both eyebrows at me meaningfully. “Whoever you should choose to partake in that enjoyment, that is your choice, and choose wisely. Every man that ever got to touch me was afforded an honor. A privilege.” Stormy waves her hand over me. “All this? It’s a privilege to worship at this temple, do you understand my meaning? Not just any young fool can approach the throne. Remember my words, Lara Jean. You decide who, how far, and how often, if ever.”
“I had no idea you were such a feminist,” I say.
“Feminist?” Stormy makes a disgusted sound in her throat. “I’m no feminist. Really, Lara Jean!”
“Stormy, don’t get worked up about it. All it means is that you believe men and women are equal, and should have equal rights.”
“I don’t think any man is my equal. Women are far superior, and don’t you forget it. Don’t forget any of the things I just told you.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time than we hoped for. It's sad, but it's life. So you go to this ball, Holly and you embrace the fact that you had someone whom you loved and who loved you back.
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Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
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When it’s time to leave, we put on our shoes, kiss Daddy good-bye, and tumble out the front door. Waiting for us on the street in front of his car is Peter with a bouquet of cellophane-wrapped pink carnations. “Happy birthday, kid,” he says. Kitty’s eyes bulge. “Are those for me?” He laughs. “Who else would they be for? Hurry and get in the car.” Kitty turns to me, her eyes bright, her smile as wide as her face. I’m smiling too. “Are you coming too, Lara Jean?” I shake my head. “No, there’s only room for two.” “You’re my only girl today, kid,” Peter says, and Kitty runs to him and snatches the flowers out of his hand. Gallantly, he opens the door for her. He shuts it and turns and winks at me. “Don’t be jealous, Covey.” I’ve never liked him more than in this moment.
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Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
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Dear Max -
You looked so beautiful today. I'm going to remember what you looked like forever.
...
And I hope you remember me the same way - clean, ha-ha. I'm glad our last time together was happy.
But I'm leaving tonight, leaving the flock, and this time it's for good. I don't know if I'll ever see any of you again. The thing is, Max, that everyone is a little bit right. Added up all together, it makes this one big right.
Dylan's a little bit right about how my being here might be putting the rest of you in danger. The threat might have been just about Dr. Hans, but we don't know that for sure. Angel is a little bit right about how splitting up the flock will help all of us survive. And the rest of the flock is a little bit right about how when you and I are together, we're focused on each other - we can't help it.
The thing is, Maximum, I love you. I can't help but be focused on you when we're together. If you're in the room, I want to be next to you. If you're gone, I think about you. You're the one who I want to talk to. In a fight, I want you at my back. When we're together, the sun is shining. When we're apart, everything is in shades of gray.
I hope you'll forgive me someday for turning our worlds into shades of gray - at least for a while.
...
You're not at your best when you're focused on me. I mean, you're at your best Maxness, but not your best leaderness. I mostly need Maxness. The flock mostly needs leaderness. And Angel, if you're listening to this, it ain't you, sweetie. Not yet.
...
At least for a couple more years, the flock needs a leader to survive, no matter how capable everyone thinks he or she is. The truth is that they do need a leader, and the truth is that you are the best leader. It's one of the things I love about you.
But the more I thought about it, the more sure I got that this is the right thing to do. Maybe not for you, or for me, but for all of us together, our flock.
Please don't try to find me. This is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life, besides wearing that suit today, and seeing you again will only make it harder. You'd ask me to come back, and I would, because I can't say no to you. But all the same problems would still be there, and I'd end up leaving again, and then we'd have to go through this all over again.
Please make us only go through this once.
...
I love you. I love your smile, your snarl, your grin, your face when you're sleeping. I love your hair streaming out behind you as we fly, with the sunlight making it shine, if it doesn't have too much mud or blood in it. I love seeing your wings spreading out, white and brown and tan and speckled, and the tiny, downy feathers right at the top of your shoulders. I love your eyes, whether they're cold or calculating or suspicious or laughing or warm, like when you look at me.
...
You're the best warrior I know, the best leader. You're the most comforting mom we've ever had. You're the biggest goofball, the worst driver, and a truly lousy cook. You've kept us safe and provided for us, in good times and bad. You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen, with wings or without.
...
Tell you what, sweetie: If in twenty years we haven't expired yet, and the world is still more or less in one piece, I'll meet you at the top of that cliff where we first met the hawks and learned to fly with them. You know the one. Twenty years from today, if I'm alive, I'll be there, waiting for you. You can bet on it.
Good-bye, my love.
Fang
P.S. Tell everyone I sure will miss them
”
”
James Patterson
“
Holly smiled weakly. Gerry would know exactly how she was feeling, he would know exactly
what to say and he would know exactly what to do. He would give her one of his famous hugs
and all her problems would melt away. She grabbed a pillow from her bed and hugged it tight.
She couldn't remember the last time she hugged someone, really hugged someone. And the
depressing thing was that she couldn't imagine ever embracing anyone the same way again.
”
”
Cecelia Ahern (P.S. I Love You (P.S. I Love You, #1))
“
I look at Kitty, who's braiding Chris's hair in microbraids. She's being extra quiet so we forget she's here and don't kick her out. 'I think that as long as you're ready and it's what you want to do and you're protecting yourself, then it's okay and you should do what you want to do.'
Margot says, 'Society is far too caught up in shaming a woman for enjoying sex and applauding a man. I mean, all of the comments are about how Lara Jean is a slut, but nobody's saying anything about Peter, and he's right there with her. It's a ridiculous double standard.
”
”
Jenny Han (P.S. I Still Love You (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #2))
“
(Golden Globe acceptance speech in the style of Jane Austen's letters):
"Four A.M. Having just returned from an evening at the Golden Spheres, which despite the inconveniences of heat, noise and overcrowding, was not without its pleasures. Thankfully, there were no dogs and no children. The gowns were middling. There was a good deal of shouting and behavior verging on the profligate, however, people were very free with their compliments and I made several new acquaintances. Miss Lindsay Doran, of Mirage, wherever that might be, who is largely responsible for my presence here, an enchanting companion about whom too much good cannot be said. Mr. Ang Lee, of foreign extraction, who most unexpectedly apppeared to understand me better than I undersand myself. Mr. James Schamus, a copiously erudite gentleman, and Miss Kate Winslet, beautiful in both countenance and spirit. Mr. Pat Doyle, a composer and a Scot, who displayed the kind of wild behavior one has lernt to expect from that race. Mr. Mark Canton, an energetic person with a ready smile who, as I understand it, owes me a vast deal of money. Miss Lisa Henson -- a lovely girl, and Mr. Gareth Wigan -- a lovely boy. I attempted to converse with Mr. Sydney Pollack, but his charms and wisdom are so generally pleasing that it proved impossible to get within ten feet of him. The room was full of interesting activitiy until eleven P.M. when it emptied rather suddenly. The lateness of the hour is due therefore not to the dance, but to the waiting, in a long line for horseless vehicles of unconscionable size. The modern world has clearly done nothing for transport.
P.S. Managed to avoid the hoyden Emily Tomkins who has purloined my creation and added things of her own. Nefarious creature."
"With gratitude and apologies to Miss Austen, thank you.
”
”
Emma Thompson (The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film)
“
To: Anna Oliphant
From: Etienne St. Clair
Subject: HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Have you gotten used to the time difference? Bloody hell,I can't sleep. I'd call,but I don't know if you're awake or doing the family thing or what. The bay fog is so thick that I can't see out my window.But if I could, I am quite certain I'd discover that I'm the only person alive in San Francisco.
To: Anna Oliphant
From: Etienne St. Clair
Subject: I forgot to tell you.
Yesterday I saw a guy wearing an Atlanta Film Festival shirt at the hospital.I asked if he knew you,but he didn't.I also met an enormous,hair man in a cheeky Mrs. Claus getup. he was handing out gifts to the cancer patients.Mum took the attached picture. Do I always look so startled?
To: Anna Oliphant
From: Etienne St. Clair
Subject: Are you awake yet?
Wake up.Wake up wake up wake up.
To: Etienne St. Clair
From: Anna Oliphant
Subject: re: Are you awake yet?
I'm awake! Seany started jumping on my bed,like,three hours ago. We've been opening presents and eating sugar cookies for breakfast. Dad gave me a gold ring shaped like a heart. "For Daddy's sweetheart," he said. As if I'm the type of girl who'd wear a heart-shaped ring. FROM HER FATHER. He gave Seany tons of Star Wars stuff and a rock polishing kit,and I'd much rather have those.I can't beleive Mom invited him here for Christmas. She says it's because their divorce is amicable (um,no) and Seany and I need a father figure in our lives,but all they ever do is fight.This morning it was about my hair.Dad wants me to dye it back, because he thinks I look like a "common prostitute," and Mom wants to re-bleach it.Like either of them has a say. Oops,gotta run.My grandparents just arrived,and Granddad is bellowing for his bonnie lass.That would be me.
P.S. Love the picture.Mrs. Claus is totally checking out your butt. And it's Merry Christmas, weirdo.
To: Anna Oliphant
From: Etienne St. Clair
Subject: HAHAHA@
Was it a PROMISE RING? Did your father give you a PROMISE RING?
To: Etienne St. Clair
From: Anna Oliphant
Subject: Re: HAHAHA!
I am so not responding to that.
”
”
Stephanie Perkins (Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1))
“
What rhymes with insensitive?” I tap my pen on the kitchen table, beyond frustrated with my current task. Who knew rhyming was so fucking difficult?
Garrett, who’s dicing onions at the counter, glances over. “Sensitive,” he says helpfully.
“Yes, G, I’ll be sure to rhyme insensitive with sensitive. Gold star for you.”
On the other side of the kitchen, Tucker finishes loading the dishwasher and turns to frown at me. “What the hell are you doing over there, anyway? You’ve been scribbling on that notepad for the past hour.”
“I’m writing a love poem,” I answer without thinking. Then I slam my lips together, realizing what I’ve done.
Dead silence crashes over the kitchen.
Garrett and Tucker exchange a look. An extremely long look. Then, perfectly synchronized, their heads shift in my direction, and they stare at me as if I’ve just escaped from a mental institution. I may as well have. There’s no other reason for why I’m voluntarily writing poetry right now. And that’s not even the craziest item on Grace’s list.
That’s right. I said it. List. The little brat texted me not one, not two, but six tasks to complete before she agrees to a date. Or maybe gestures is a better way to phrase it...
“I just have one question,” Garrett starts.
“Really?” Tuck says. “Because I have many.”
Sighing, I put my pen down. “Go ahead. Get it out of your systems.”
Garrett crosses his arms. “This is for a chick, right? Because if you’re doing it for funsies, then that’s just plain weird.”
“It’s for Grace,” I reply through clenched teeth.
My best friend nods solemnly.
Then he keels over. Asshole. I scowl as he clutches his side, his broad back shuddering with each bellowing laugh. And even while racked with laughter, he manages to pull his phone from his pocket and start typing.
“What are you doing?” I demand.
“Texting Wellsy. She needs to know this.”
“I hate you.”
I’m so busy glaring at Garrett that I don’t notice what Tucker’s up to until it’s too late. He snatches the notepad from the table, studies it, and hoots loudly. “Holy shit. G, he rhymed jackass with Cutlass.”
“Cutlass?” Garrett wheezes. “Like the sword?”
“The car,” I mutter. “I was comparing her lips to this cherry-red Cutlass I fixed up when I was a kid. Drawing on my own experience, that kind of thing.”
Tucker shakes his head in exasperation. “You should have compared them to cherries, dumbass.”
He’s right. I should have. I’m a terrible poet and I do know it.
“Hey,” I say as inspiration strikes. “What if I steal the words to “Amazing Grace”? I can change it to…um…Terrific Grace.”
“Yup,” Garrett cracks. “Pure gold right there. Terrific Grace.”
I ponder the next line. “How sweet…”
“Your ass,” Tucker supplies.
Garrett snorts. “Brilliant minds at work. Terrific Grace, how sweet your ass.” He types on his phone again.
“Jesus Christ, will you quit dictating this conversation to Hannah?” I grumble. “Bros before hos, dude.”
“Call my girlfriend a ho one more time and you won’t have a bro.”
Tucker chuckles. “Seriously, why are you writing poetry for this chick?”
“Because I’m trying to win her back. This is one of her requirements.”
That gets Garrett’s attention. He perks up, phone poised in hand as he asks, “What are the other ones?”
“None of your fucking business.”
“Golly gee, if you do half as good a job on those as you’re doing with this epic poem, then you’ll get her back in no time!”
I give him the finger. “Sarcasm not appreciated.” Then I swipe the notepad from Tuck’s hand and head for the doorway. “PS? Next time either of you need to score points with your ladies? Don’t ask me for help. Jackasses.”
Their wild laughter follows me all the way upstairs. I duck into my room and kick the door shut, then spend the next hour typing up the sorriest excuse for poetry on my laptop. Jesus. I’m putting more effort into this damn poem than for my actual classes.
”
”
Elle Kennedy (The Mistake (Off-Campus, #2))