The Falling in Love Montage: The perfect YA sapphic romcom for your summer holiday

by Ciara Smyth

If this was a lesbian film, unfortunately, one of us would have to kill ourselves at the end.”

When you’re with someone there’s a secret kind of look that passes between you that you take for granted. Something in their eyes that tells you that they are home for you.

Do scenes like this happen so often in real life that they end up in the movies, or are the movies giving us a convenient script for inconvenient conversations?

Was this what being straight was like? A boy in your bedroom making a mess? Not for the first time, I thanked God I was a lesbian.

It’s a pet peeve of mine that straight women call their friends “girlfriends.” They are not your girlfriends. If you are not getting up close and personal with the lady garden then there are words for that: friends, mates, buddies, pals, etc., etc. Leave us our word, OK?

You can only go with what you feel right now and if you feel like it might make you happy, even for a while, jump in with both feet, girl, and get wet.”

Being noticed doing something that would be invisible if I were with a boy.

But I do believe there’s a right person for you at different times in your life. Whether that relationship lasts a week or fifty years is not what makes it special.”

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“See, the thing about the falling in love montage,” she said, her voice hoarse, “is that when it’s over, the characters have fallen in love.”

“History is who we are,” I say finally. “The past shapes us. Even the parts you can’t remember.”