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going back and forth, holding her close and then pushing her away. It wasn’t right.
I kissed him awake.
“You’re a peach.”
I was a person who loved to play Remember When in my head. I’d always prided myself on how I remembered every detail. It scared me to think that my memories could be just ever-so-slightly wrong.
He called out, “I still love you.”
Don’t you get that you can’t play with people like that?”
My heart was pounding a million trillion times a minute. I never felt more alive. Anger, sadness, joy. He made me feel it all. No one else had that kind of effect on me. No one.
I couldn’t let go of Conrad, and I couldn’t walk away from Jeremiah.
You treat her like a toy that you just pick up and play with whenever you feel like it. You’re like a little boy. Someone else took what was yours, and you don’t like that one bit, so you swoop in and shit all over everything just because you can.”
Be the good guy she says you are.
Being near you like this, it hurts.
“Sounds like a band.”
“Lying here and looking up at the stars like this, it makes me feel like I’m lying on a planet. It’s so wide. So infinite.”
So no, he didn’t give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity.
tell me you don’t still love Con.” “Jere, I love you.” “That’s not what I’m asking. I know you love me. What I’m asking is, do you love him too?”
The next time I see you, I’m sure you’ll be toothless. But happy. I really do hope you’re happy.
but I don’t know what you ever saw in me either, so I guess there’s no accounting for taste, right?