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1 " I'm being fair, it was the best kiss of my life- a kiss that finds all your seams and pulls them apart, stitch by detail stitch. "
― Autumn Doughton , Glass Hearts
2 " Happiness isn't something that you plan for. It comes knocking unexpectedly, just like opportunity. And it's up to you to answer the door and invite it inside. "
3 " Here's what I think: it's one thing to know that rejection is coming, and it's an entirely different thing when it arrives. "
4 " I love you back - in a big and epic way. "
5 " And, you know, when all is said and done, it really is better to wind up feeling scared and stupid than not feel anything at all. "
6 " But, here's a sad fact: perfect isn't meant to be. When you aim for perfect, you just wind up ruined. "
7 " Life is unpredictable and it doesn't follow a map. "
8 " I can assure you that a kiss under the influence does not equal long-lasting romance. "
9 " Sometimes things don't work out like we plan. Like, maybe life has other things in mind. "
10 " He looks at you like you're the only person in the room. Like he's trapped underwater and you're an oxygen tank. Like he's in anaphylactic shock and you're an EpiPen. "
11 " Ellie, I came back early because I was driving everyone around me crazy. When I wasn't texting you or talking to you, I was talking about you, and thinking about you, and wondering about you...you get the idea. "
12 " That's it. I've had enough of this talking crap. I reach my hands up. I cup his chin and bring his mouth to mine. "
13 " Insecurity is like a net, and I let it catch me. "
14 " Look, haven't you ever heard that musicians play from the heart? Well, I can't be expected to play in California when my heart's over two thousand miles away. "
15 " I guess, sometimes the most inexplicable things end up being the ones that work the best. "
16 " Happiness isn’t something that you can plan for. It comes knocking unexpectedly, just like opportunity. And it’s up to you to answer the door and invite it inside. "
17 " If the question is: what's more mortifying than professing your love to a boy and having him turn and walk away from you? The answer is: professing your love to a boy, while standing in front of your friends, parents and a hundred strangers, and having him turn and walk away from you. "
18 " Then I wake up. And, it's not the purple- hued light of the house at three in the morning that has woken me, or the sound of Payton stumbling into the bathroom. It's a hand. A single hand. So innocuous. I feel it before my eyes blink open. A slight weight on my hip. A current of electricity running through me, reshaping the air that I breathe. It takes only a second for me to process what it is, to rearrange the spaces in my head around the feel of his fingers on my body. "
19 " Crushes are for fourteen year olds. Ellie, I would describe what's happening to you as falling. "
20 " This is no shy, just-between-friends kiss. This is a kiss unlike any that I've ever had. It's the kiss of a hundred thumping kick drums, a raging earthquake. "
