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We Used to Be Friends We Used to Be Friends by Amy Spalding
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“The secret about falling in love is how you can do it a million times over with the same person, when the person is the right one.”
Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends
“Shouldn't we just admit the friendship had, somehow, run its course?Sure,we might have moments where things feel just like before, but that doesn't erase the long stretches of time, when they don't”
Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends
“It’s incredible how many things can be interpreted as I miss you and want you back and also deeply want to have sex with you when the recipient is desperately seeking that meaning.”
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“After all, the boys added up—Tony, Bryce, Javier, and I guess Logan, too—didn’t come close to this. There are breakup tunes and lovesick ballads and celebrating-that-he-was-gone anthems. It was easy to believe that romance was the only heartache out there.”
Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends
“I assumed if something was going on, you would have told me,” I say. “I tell you everything.” “God, don’t I know it,” she says. “When would there have been room for my problems? For me at all?” Whoa. “James . . . it’s not like that. I tell you everything because you’re my best friend.” “But it’s not like that,” she says. “It’s like I’ve been your therapist. You dump all over me and then you don’t even stick around to reciprocate. At least therapists get paid. I’m just doing all of it for free.”
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“And Kat’s . . . a little self-centered. I worry there’s no room for you in your friendship sometimes.”
Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends
“It just seems like . . . I mean, I’m seventeen. Wouldn’t I know by now if I liked girls?” I try to picture it, liking Quinn. It’s silly to act like it would mean the same thing as it means now, even if already we spend so much time together. James and I spend plenty of time together, and I’m not in love with her. Liking Quinn would be completely new territory.”
Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends
“I just smile at her, and she knows.”
Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends
“Quinn is somehow balancing all three Dole Whip floats in her hands. 'Should we eat these in the Tiki Room? Or just sit out here?'
'You can't not eat these in the Tiki Room,' Kat says. 'I can only enjoy pinapple soft serve when I'm being serenaded by animatronic parrots.”
Amy Spalding, We Used to Be Friends