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1 " Okay. Scrabble, donuts, flowers, corndogs, pre-pubescent British wizards and indie music. Am I missing anything important?”She’s still blushing and it’s like the heat in her face is trapping all the words inside of her. “What is it?” I ask, an involuntary grin tugging on my mouth. I love it when she blushes like this.Amy sighs, looks up toward the chandelier, “You, Cole. I like you. "
― Autumn Doughton , In This Moment
2 " It’s hard to say how it happens. How all of the bits of me – even the broken ones – start to tumble. I think it’s my toes that go first. Next – my legs and the hallow spaces behind my ribs. And then my arms all the way down through my wrist bones to the tips of my fingers. My lips part and I realize that this is what it feels like to fall. "
3 " All we get are moments, Cole. One at a time, like heartbeats. Once all of them is gone, that’s it. No do-overs. No repeats. Every moment possesses its down kind of magic and what we do with it counts. It counts. "
4 " Love isn’t an accident or something that just happens when you’re not looking. Love is a choice, not a chance. "
5 " You don’t get my permission to break my fucking heart. "
6 " I have a theory that the world is broken up into two kinds of people.""Yeah?""Yep. On the one side are the people who love the Harry Pottery books and wish that they could attend Hogwarts and have Ron and Hermione for best friends and vanquish Death Eaters and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named."She's smiling at me, and she's just so fucking cute. I have to ask: "And the other side?"Aimee shrugs. "Douchebags. "
7 " Every moment possesses its own kind of magic. "
8 " Do you hear that sound? It's the sound of the world ripping apart. "
9 " If she wanted to, she could reach into my chest and rip my heart out of my body because it already belongs to her. "
10 " Don't you get it? No one has ever been anything to me until you. "
11 " My first love is reading. My second love is pizza. "
12 " Her. One word. A simple pronoun that seems like an entire vocabulary. "
13 " And if she wanted to, she could reach into my chest and rip my heart out of my body because it already belongs to her. "
14 " Nobody wants to know about the nightmares or the riptide of memories constantly trying to drag me under. The world doesn't want to be forced to look at my scars. "
15 " After all of it… the good, the bad, the in-between… If I told you that I love you, what would you say? "
16 " You, Cole. I like you. "
17 " And on the bad days I'm not even sure that I exist anymore. Today is a bad day. "
18 " Maybe you aren’t wrong. Maybe she is inside of you. But I don’t think she’s making a racket because she’s trying to get out. I think she just wants to make sure you know that she’s there. "
19 " I'll never forget it because it was such an odd thing to say. She told me that she'd be you. You, Aimee. She cupped her hand to the place where my heart beat under my skin. Maybe you aren't wrong. Maybe she is inside of you. But I don't think she's making a racket because she's trying to get out. I think she just wants to make sure you know that she's there. "
20 " We don't want to lose you. Didn't she realize that I was already gone. "