Better Than the Movies (Better than the Movies, #1)

by Lynn Painter

Wes: Make sure you add “Someone Like You” to the Wes and Liz playlist.

The universe likes Wes better.

Buy that dress. I’m begging you.

“And I think I regret all of it. I miss your clothes and curly hair. You look best when you’re you.”

Give me something, Bennett. Please.

Please don’t ever become a stranger Whose laugh I could recognize anywhere—

“Did you ever know, Liz, that Wes used to sit on the back porch and listen to you practice the piano? We pretended not to see him, but he was always there.

Be brave enough to go big.

“She’s not you.” “What?” “She. Isn’t. You.”

“I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn your cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you.”

“Because just seeing you in that dress made me want to punch our very good friend Michael.”

“Do you realize we could’ve been doing this for years if you weren’t such a pain in the ass?” “Nah—I didn’t like you until recently.” “Enemies-to-lovers—it’s our trope, Buxbaum.”