Heir. Bloody. Heir.

— Stephanie Perkins

He's exasperated. "I'm saying I'm in love with you! I've been in love with you this whole bleeding year!

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He snuffles. Oh, no. He's not going to cry, is he? Because even though it's sweet when guys cry, I am so not prepared for this. Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

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He’s so close, yet so far away.” – Anna

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Hot. I’ve been upgraded to hot. No one has ever called me hot. Cute? Yes. Adorable? Yes, often and it makes me want to punch them. I didn’t know short girls could even be hot. I thought I’d been permanently relegated to elfin-pixie-child status.

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How could I wish for it for so long, only to come back and find it gone. To be here, in my technical house, and discover that home is now someplace different.

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How did you know? That she wasn't the one for him?" Now he's staring at his hands, slowing rubbing them together. "They just didn't have that. . . Natural magic. You know? It never seemed easy." My voice grows tiny. "Do you think things have to be easy? For it to work?" Cricket's head shoots up, his eyes bulging as they grasp my meaning. "NO. I mean, yes, but. . . Sometimes there are ... extenuating circumstances. That prevent it from being easy. For a while. But then people overcome those ...circumstances. . . And. . ."" So you believe in second chances?" I bite my lip. "Second, third, fourth. Whatever it takes. However long it takes. If the person is right," he adds. If the person is. . . Lola?" This time, he holds my gaze. "Only if the other person is Cricket." Chapter 27Pg 273

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I bought you love poetry! 'I love you as certain dark things are loved, secretly, between the shadow and the soul.'" I blink at him. "Neruda. I starred the passage. God," he moans. "Why didn't you open it?

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I didn't know it was possible to simultaneously hate and ache for someone.

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I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths.

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