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Living like she’s on the run from the fucking FBI. Normal stuff.
Truth is, when you spend your whole life alone, it’s incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in, where being alone looks like a choice.
are teeth.
“I can’t decide if I’m impressed or horrified.” “My favorite emotional place,”
“That’s where horny lives.”
But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It’s good. Even when it’s bad, it’s good.
Physically, August doesn’t react, but spiritually, she’s fully on fire.
“Every woman a universe.”
i like that
Jane is lightning on long legs—the dark never stood a chance.
A smirking shot of dopamine.
Bella Swan, eat your horny little Mormon heart out.
me anytime anything super sketchy happens
“Comatose in California is my favorite Lana Del Rey album.”
same gurl same
If she looked at me the way she looks at you, my IUD would have shot out like a party popper.”
Like you shit sunshine. Like you invented love as a concept.”
It’s research. It’s only research. Lie back and think of the fucking Dewey Decimal System.
“I don’t know how to have something that I do, every day, like as an adult who does a thing. It’s nuts that we all start out having these vague ideas of what we like to do, hobbies, interests, and then one day everybody has their thing, you know? They used to just be a person and now they’re a—an architect, or a banker, or a lawyer, or—or a serial killer who makes jewelry out of human teeth. Like, things. That they do. That they are. What if there’s not that thing for me, Jane, I mean, what if I’ve never wanted to be anything other than just an August? What if that’s all there is for me? What
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me, 100% of the time. always in crisis mode...
“You did. And that is what you need to trust in. Because you got what you need. And sometimes, the universe has your back.”
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“None of us know exactly who we are, and guess what? It doesn’t fucking matter. God knows I don’t, but I’ll find my way to it.”
Right now, she’s the prettiest girl August has ever seen.
BIG DICK ENERGY IS GENDER NEUTRAL.
“She got off the train, and you led with the kissing? God, you are the most useless bisexual I’ve ever met in my entire goddamn life.”
Thankfully, after the first, they’re almost never songs that she used to eat girls out to.
But to kiss and be kissed. To be wanted. That’s a different thing from love. And maybe, maybe if she tried, they could have something. Not everything, but something.
That’s her girl.
...YES
That’s, like, boner city.
fair
“Oh my God. She literally shorted out the train because she was horny,”
“She’s an icon.”
“She’s my...
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“Nobody asked the fucking Long Island Medium.”
They’re this weird-looking subtropical species that are super defensive of themselves. When they feel attacked or threatened, they’ll break the bones in their own toes and force the fragments through their skin to use as claws.”
“She’s gonna have to live with the fact that I’ll always wish she were someone else.”
*ugly cry face*
“Turns out he blocked me on social media because he ‘couldn’t stand to see how I’m doing’ without him. Which, I mean, fair. A bitch is doing spectacularly.”
fair
“Sometimes the point is to be sad, August. Sometimes you just have to feel it because it deserves to be felt.”
circle jerk
“You don’t get to decide that for him,”
“Actually, yeah, I am. Yeah. In love with you.”
“I’m gonna kiss you,” Annie says to Wes.
They kiss.
“There was this girl. I met her on a train. The first time I saw her, she was covered in coffee and smelled like pancakes, and she was beautiful like a city you always wanted to go to, like how you wait years and years for the right time, and then as soon as you get there, you have to taste everything and touch everything and learn every street by name. I felt like I knew her. She reminded me who I was. She had soft lips and green eyes and a body that wouldn’t quit.” August elbows her, Jane smiles. “Hair like you wouldn’t believe. Stubborn, sharp as a knife. And I never, ever wanted a person
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“I’m in absolute fuck-off, life-ruining love with you, and I can’t—I can’t do this and not tell you,” she goes on. Jane’s staring at her with her mouth popped open in soft surprise. “Maybe you already know, maybe it’s obvious and saying it is just gonna make this harder, but—God, I love you.”
“I fell in love with you the day I met you, and then I fell in love with the person you remembered you are. I got to fall in love with you twice. That’s—that’s magic. You’re the first thing I’ve believed in since—since I don’t even remember, okay, you’re—you’re movies and destiny and every stupid, impossible thing, and it’s not because of the fucking train, it’s because of you. It’s because you fight and you care and you’re always kind but never easy, and you won’t let anything take that away from you. You’re my fucking hero, Jane. I don’t care if you think you’re not one. You are.”
“Of course I love you. I could go back and have a whole life and get old and never see you again, and you would still be it. You were—you are the love of my life.”
All for her arms wrapped around Jane in a diner on a Saturday afternoon.
Her girl. She came back.
A switchblade girl with a cotton-candy heart.
