Don't Want You Like a Best Friend Quotes

“She's so beautiful, and so wonderful, and there just in front of her, and Beth can't have her.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“This is what it's supposed to feel like. Swoony and bright and everything.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“Now she wants them together on Gwen’s absurdly plush bed. She wants to know what Gwen tastes like- everywhere.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“I want to be loved, Beth says without hesitation. I want to feel more than bland fondness for the man who'll be in my bed and own me.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“Of course mother’s fine with compromise, it’s all she's ever known but Beth, Beth wants so much more than empty ash and compromise for both of them. This half life will never be enough.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“They lay them over their vanity chair. Such a simple action, but Beth feels like it speaks volumes. Their under things there, together, atop each other. They stand staring at the pile of their skirts, Beth can feel the brush of Gwen’s chemise against her own, close, but not close enough.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“She sucks on Gwen’s bottom lip as she roughly tugs open the front clasps on Gwen’s corset, smiling at Beth’s startled gasp and laugh. She didn't know women could be rough together, could be playful together, could be heated and wanting and clutching together until Gwen kissed her at the party and now- now she’s about to learn all the other things they could do together.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“The two of them left standing in the innermost circles of their hoop cages, arms around each other even as their hips remain two feet apart. They separate and stand straight, taking each other in for the first time. It’s just them in their drawers, chemises, and stays, and Beth feels a change in the air. Gwen holds out a hand and together they step out of their hoops and shuffle close to the bed.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“There’s no going back from that moment. What she feels for Gwen, she will never feel for anyone else. It is singular and beautiful and she wants more of it. More of Gwen’s hands, and her lips and her time and her affection...”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“Beth clutches at Gwen’s skirts unwilling to be parted from her even with the threat of discovery looming around them. She’d let the whole world watch for another minute pressed against these aging barrels with Gwen’s lips on hers.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“I just want you to be happy,”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“Forever and always and enternity and infinity,"
"For centuries, and eons, and epochs?"
"For every season, and year, and decade...”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend

“Unhappy people are often cruel to avoid the cruelty within.”
― Emma R. Alban, Don't Want You Like a Best Friend