The Color of Us Quotes

“Green eggs and ham,”
― Jessica Park, The Color of Us

“Cauliflower pretending to be rice, oat milk pretending to be cow’s milk. Jackfruit pretending to be meat when it’s nothing like it. Nothing … substantial.”
― Jessica Park, The Color of Us

“I want to know what it feels like to fall so deeply in love that I can never come out of it … I want to be so engulfed and so intrinsically tied to another person … I want that with you.”
― Jessica Park, The Color of Us

“I’m going to fall so deeply in love with you that I won’t know where I stop and where you begin, and I’ll never come back from that. And I don’t want to.”
― Jessica Park, The Color of Us

“Feeling anything definitive right now?”
I nod. “Eager.”
He steps in closer. “For what?”
“For you.”
“Because you’ve fallen in love in another way?” he brushes my hair back and looks at me with undeniable longing. “God, I hope you have.”
“Yes.”
His hands are on my hops before I can say anything else, and he pulls me in. “Good. Because I cannot take this insatiable, consuming tension for another fucking second.”
― Jessica Park, The Color of Us

“We grew up together. That means I’d do anything for you.”
― Jessica Park, The Color of Us

“I exhale for what feels like the first time in ages. A real exhale. One that isn’t solely about breathing to sustain life. One that might be about choosing to live life. It’s both blissful and disarming.”
― Jessica Park, The Color of Us