You (You, #1)

by Caroline Kepnes

“I’m just going to say this and I can’t look at you when I say this. I like using your toothbrush because I like having you inside of me and I’m sorry I know that’s weird and gross.”

“You’re inside of me,”

I don’t want to be a person who knows the name of a fictional a cappella group in a chick flick but that’s what love has done to me.

When we move in together, which we will, I am gonna have to choose between you and the pieces of you currently stored in a box,

She sets her novels on the counter. Charles Bukowski is right on top, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship.

solipsistic

you are as stubborn as Buttercup.

Beck has a beautiful voice.

Animals know you don’t fuck with a zookeeper.

He’s laughing and he’s wearing my Holden Caulfield hat you were going to bring back to Macy’s.

We’ve got big decisions to make, Beck. Will you move in with me? Will I move in with you? Will we stay in New York?

didn’t really want him. I just wanted him to leave his wife for me. I wanted to fuck up his kids, and yes, Joe. I do know how sick that sounds.”

I know my way around a book. I think you skipped entire passages, you brainless phony.

“And if you bought a book and found notes in the margins, I mean who

wouldn’t love that? It’s a bonus.”