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Madeline: You think I’m pretty? Olly: for a fairytale ghost spy princess? definitely
It’s a pain to come see me.
It’d never occurred to me that he’d want to eat the food.
“Everything’s a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It’s up to you.”
I might not be in love, but I’m in like. I’m in serious like.
One thing I’m certain of: Wanting just leads to more wanting. There’s no end to desire.
NO YES MAYBE
I dont knowwww can you repeat the questionnnnnn
Maybe we can’t predict everything, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.
I know she’s just trying to protect me, just as I was trying to protect myself a few short weeks ago, but her words make me aware that the heart in my chest is a muscle like any other. It can hurt.
Isn’t growing apart a part of growing up?
Friends are allowed to touch, right?
In two weeks my skin will have no memory of Olly’s hand on mine, but my brain will remember. We can have immortality or the memory of touch. But we can’t have both.
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Compared with Carla, she’s altogether less.
But a description of a tree is not a tree, and a thousand paper kisses will never equal the feel of Olly’s lips against mine.
He tastes just like I remember.
I was happy before I met him. But I’m alive now, and those are not the same thing.
Into all lives a little turbulence must fall.
I give you the Murphy bed.”
Hopefully you don't die like in the sims!
There’s really no denying that I have breasts and legs in this thing.
“A little drowning never hurt anybody,” says the boy who once warned me that the sea was merciless and unforgiving.
“Maybe growing up means disappointing the people we love.”
The urge to bite him is irresistible and I don’t resist it.
Remember what Yo Gabba Gabba said: "Don't bite your friends!"
It’s a hard concept to hold on to—the idea that there was a time before us. A time before time.
In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything.
You don’t exist if no one can see you.
“Mamas don’t know how to hate their babies. They love them too much.”
Physicians should never practice on their families.
I am not sick and I never have been.
A UNIVERSE THAT can wink into existence can wink out again.
Love is worth everything. Everything.
