Kindle Notes & Highlights
“Do you really want to work?” “We’ll get sick of the beach and each other if we don’t,” Layla says.
She’s not just any girl.” “How can you tell?” Archie shrugs. “Call it a gut feeling.”
Small talk never hurt anybody, even if the other person in the conversation turns out to be even more handsome in the sunlight.
If you know what you like, why settle for anything less?
“To be young and in love,”
“Beating around the bush only gets you a beaten bush. Being direct is key.”
He would have jumped off a bridge with her, without a harness, if that’s what she wanted to do together.
There you are, she thinks, smiling to herself. I thought I’d lost you forever.
“If I’m being honest,” he says, “to me, how I felt about you, after meeting you, was about the only sure thing in my life that night.”
She wasn’t happy being alone, but she was used to it. Being alone was safe. Not having to rely on anyone kept her from being disappointed.
She wants, more than anything, the highs and lows of being in love. Because that’s when you know it’s real. That’s when you know it’s more than just romance. It’s a life built.
“It’s okay to be scared,” he says. “Let’s just be scared together.”
“A whole summer just sets me up for more heartbreak! It’s like, which would you rather jump off of, Narra? The first step of the staircase to the ground floor, or the fucking Empire State Building?”
"guys like it when you suck a lot. You know, literally."
“God, Arch. I like you so much it scares me half the time. You’re the first thing I think of when I wake up, and the last thing when I go to bed.
“Who says you have to give anything up to be one or the other?”
“We’ll figure it out. If you’re more scared than I am, that’s fine.
Every time he thought of the future, he saw only her. It didn’t matter where they were, where life took them, or who they became.
