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1 " When you're in love, whether that love is platonic or romantic, you get to be the fullest version of yourself, uncertainties and mistakes and all. "
― Rachel Lynn Solomon , We Can't Keep Meeting Like This
2 " But after a while, you grow weary of beautiful. "
3 " You know better. You're so mature.' Now I'm wondering if maybe those compliments took something away from me. Not anything dramatic, like my entire childhood, but the ability to try things out. To fail. "
4 " We can't keep meeting like this. "
5 " Rowan,” says the girl, and the guy whose mother just got married introduces himself as Neil. I’m not sure how long he and Rowan have been together, but they can’t seem to stop touching each other. "
6 " Neil and Rowan exchange a look. “It took a lot to get here,” he says, and I get the sense there’s a deeper story there, one that isn’t the kind you tell during a first conversation with someone. "
7 " If I have time, I can schedule a panic attack right before the cake cutting. "
8 " I am fine. I am great. I am the coolest of cucumbers. I have taken the chillest of pills "
9 " My anxiety-brain is never content to stress over one thing when it could be stressing over five. "
10 " He "figured himself out" in college, the way people always say they're going to do. "
11 " I cross and uncross my legs so many times it must look like I'm doing Pilates at best and a seductive chair dance at worst. "
12 " He's been bumping my hip the whole game, winking at me, gazing at my mouth. It's the kind of attention I've always liked–people making it so obvious they're into you that you don't have to drive yourself wild with anxiety trying to decipher their feelings. "
13 " I can barely commit to a skin-care regimen. I'm not sure how to commit to a major. "
14 " That voice. It's a time machine of familiar longing, tugging me back. "