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1 " Elle was technicolor chaos and the feelings she inspired in Darcy were a hazard straight out of Pandora’s box. "
― Alexandria Bellefleur , Written in the Stars (Written in the Stars, #1)
2 " if you so much as make a single joke right now or butcher a playground nursery rhyme about trees and kissing and baby carriages, I'll let myself into your apartment and use your comic book collection as kindling. Capiche? "
3 " ELLE: i tried to heterotextualize my feelings for a while ELLE: in retrospect idk whyELLE: all part of the process i guess DARCY You what? "It took her a second to figure out what had confused Darcy."ELLE: apply hetero context to a super not straight situation ELLE: hetero + contextualize = heterotextualize DARCY: Huh. New word. Thanks for broadening my horizons. "Elle bit the inside of her cheek to keep from laughing."ELLE: i made it up ELLE (4:43 P.M.): but you’re welcomeDARCY (4:45 P.M.): Of course. "
4 " Oh my god. Don’t tell me you don’t know your Hogwarts house. Pottermore? The Sorting Hat Quiz?"When Darcy stared, Elle groaned and covered her face." You don’t do social media, you don’t believe in astrology, and now you don’t like Harry Potter. On behalf of our generation, I am offended, you rock dweller. "
5 " Life would be a lot better if we all spent a little more time staring at the stars. "
6 " Elle loved herself, but what a feeling it must be, being loved by someone else exactly as you are, quirks and warts and all. She wouldn't know. "
7 " Fun fact — the moon doesn't actually produce any light of its own. It reflects light from the sun, making it appear bright at night. So, if I look like the moon, I guess that means I'm reflecting the light thats around me. "
8 " I know how I feel and I'm five hundred percent certain that on a scale of one to ten, I want to be with you, exactly as you are, infinity. "
9 " We are literally made of stardust." Moonlight danced off the tips of Elle's pale blond eyelashes and made her eyes twinkle. If anyone was made of star stuff, it was her. "
10 " Eventually, when those massive stars reach the end of their lives, they go out with a bang, a supernova so bright, so beautiful it drowns out all the other stars. And when they do, they throw out all those elements they created. That’s what we’re made of. We’ve got calcium in our bones and iron in our blood and nitrogen in our DNA . . . and all of that? It comes from those stars.” Elle’s eyes glistened, sparkling as bright as the stars she spoke of as she blinked and pointed up at the sky. “We are literally made of stardust. "
11 " She wanted all of Elle—the good, the bad, the messy. "
12 " Then I’ll break into your apartment and move everything three inches to the left and fuck with your flow, okay? "
13 " Eavesdropping was wrong, but she was weak. "
14 " Elle was tired of everyone looking at her like she was a mess when she was just trying her best. "
15 " Christ on a cracker, couldn't a girl be horny in peace? "
16 " Elle loved herself, but what a feeling it must be, being loved by someone else exactly as you are, quirks and warts and all. She wouldn’t know. "
17 " I'd rather fail at something I love than succeed at something I don't. "
18 " Because perhaps if she understood astrology, she'd understand Elle, and if she understood Elle perhaps, she'd be able to untangle what it was about her that she couldn't shake. "
19 " All her friends were settling down, and Margot? She had yet to find a brand of shampoo she liked well enough to commit to, let alone a whole person "
20 " Quit trying to marry me off like I’m some Regency spinster in one of your favorite Austen novels.” “Your name is Darcy.” “And I might be a single woman in possession of a good fortune, but I’m not in want of a wife. "