Write Me for You

by Tillie Cole

“Love,” my mama said, “is the most powerful thing in the world. It can heal and it can grow in the most unlikely of places. When all is lost, love blooms.”

Awww

“I want a love like my mama and daddy. Please, Moon, when I’m old enough, send me someone to love.”

I already know I'm gonna cry

I wasn’t lonely. I adored my parents, and I always had my characters in my books to keep me company. But I couldn’t deny that I longed to know what a true, close friendship felt like.

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“First rule of the Last-Chance Ranch, Junebug: we never say goodbye, only good night.”

Oh I already know I'm in for it

“I said you were beautiful, didn’t I? I’ve never been more serious about anything in my life.”

Ooooo

“I love love stories—the kind that has your heart leaping from your chest. Ones that change a reader’s life. Make them believe in true love. Soulmates. I want to write at least one great, epic love story that lasts through the ages.”

Yesss is this book that?

“I might only be seventeen, Junebug, but I know what it’s like to have little time left. And as much as I want us to come out of this place in remission, cancer has taught me that nothing in life is too fast. Time is relative. How I feel about you…” He paused, and I could see him trying to find words. “It’s not about time. It’s not about what right or wrong. It’s about connection and wanting to be with you every day.”

:')

“Write me for you.” “What?” I whispered back in confusion. Jesse met my eyes, keeping just an inch from me as he searched them. “Write me for you. In your great love story. Fall for me.” He pressed his forehead against mine. “Allow me to fall for you. Write me for you.”

Ahhhh book title check!

“I’m falling for you, Jesse Taylor. So hard. And more and more every day.”

Yay!

“Cancer is trying to take me from this world.” My heart thudded on the ground. “I despise it. But I will forever be grateful that it led me to you.”

:')

“I want to go just like this—with you next to me, holding my hand.”

This better not be foreshadowing…

“Write our story, Junebug. Let our parallel-universe selves live the best lives they can. We deserve to have our happily ever after, even if it’s in another life.”

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“I will choose you every time, in every universe. I choose you for me completely.”

<3

“Junebug, if anything happens to me, I want you to look at the palm of your hand, the one that holds my heart, and know that I loved you more than anyone has ever loved before.” “Jesse,” June murmured. “You have been the biggest blessing in my entire life, Junebug. Not football, not anything…but you. I just want you to know that. If all we ever get is a few more weeks at this ranch, then it will be a life well lived.”

Aww