Someone I Wanted to Be Quotes

“I walked beside Carl. He kept his head down and had a very serious expression on his face as he rolled his bike along. We walked on the same sidewalks I’d waked on thousands of times, but everything felt new. The night billowed in soft waves around us. Wind blew through my body, and all the little hairs on my arms were breathing. We didn’t say anything; we just walked alongside each other as if our being together was a kind of talking.”
― Aurelia Wills, Someone I Wanted to Be

“It was a spring night, and the light was blue. The air was warm and soft. It was the kind of night that tore your heart out. Dogs barked and people laughed in their yards. Music trailed from car windows and faded away.”
― Aurelia Wills, Someone I Wanted to Be

“I turned to carl and get a jolt. No one had ever looked at me the way Carl did. Calm, steady, undistracted, intrigued, like he saw possibilities in me that I didn’t even know about. He put his hand on my shoulder, and I could feel him, Carl, through his warm hand. And I knew he could feel me seeing him.”
― Aurelia Wills, Someone I Wanted to Be