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1 " ...the issue isn't so much what I want to be, but whether or not I can be it without hurting everyone else in the process. "
― Emma Lord , Tweet Cute
2 " It’s weird, how you have no idea how far you’ve come until suddenly you can’t find the way back. "
3 " There’s a ghost of a smirk on Pepper’s face, but she’s so close, I can hear it more than I can see it. “Pepper and Jack,” she corrects me. Then her eyes light up. “Pepperjack. "
4 " You know, for someone named Pepper, you're pretty salty about losing. "
5 " Are you a witch?” I ask, reaching in and taking a bite of one. It’s like Monster Cake, the Sequel—freaking Christmas in my mouth. I already want more before I’ve even managed to chew. "
6 " Approximately eighteen hours after my kiss with Jack Campbell—my kiss with Jack Campbell—I am sitting at a card table with Pooja in the front entrance of the school behind our veritable army of baked goods, overanalyzing the situation to such an absurd degree, it is now less of a kiss and more of an FBI investigation. "
7 " This may have started with a war, but whatever it is now, there isn't an end in sight - not as long as we're both still winning. "
8 " I won't think any less of you if you break it "
9 " You can't just casually tell someone you carry caramel sauce around and walk away like thats a normal thing "
10 " A stolen day. The kind of day that ends too fast but stays with you much longer. "
11 " It feels like there’s a fire in every corner of my brain, and instead of putting any of them out, I’m just frozen and watching it spread across the room. "
12 " Bluebird:How about this? If you don't show me I won't like you anymoreWolf: That logic is cruel but sound. You asked for thisWolf:macncheeseme.comBluebird:Is this...is this an app for finding emergency mac and cheeseWolf:Life Spider-Man, I am only looking out for the citizens of New York "
13 " I’m a perfectionist, through and through, and even at five, I had no interest in embarrassing myself. "
14 " I don’t want this. But the problem is I do, and I don’t, and my feelings are still way too tangled for me to be able to say I don’t want to spend my whole future in this place when I also can’t imagine a future without it. It’s dumb, but I wish for a stupid, childish second I could just stay like this forever. "
15 " She turns her head so slowly to look at me that for a moment I am stricken with the weird unfamiliarity of being seen—no, not seen. Recognized. It’s rare enough someone knows I’m me and not Ethan without getting a good look at me. It’s straight up weird when someone can tell without fully turning around. The only person I know who can do that is Grandma Belly—my parents still mix us up so frequently that there’s about a 50 percent chance I am Ethan, and someone switched us along the way. "
16 " How can a person even know who they are if they don't know what they want? "
17 " But sometimes even shouting into a void feels better than just staring into it. "
18 " I can see it too. That I don’t belong here. That even after all this time and everything I’ve done, the things I’ve pressed and organized and pushed into myself to fit into this place, home is still somewhere a thousand miles away. Farther than that, even. Because that version of home doesn’t exist anymore. "
19 " These are the things that tether me, the things I’ve always been and just assumed would always be. What she’s saying right now feels a lot like permission to leave it behind, and it scares me every bit as much as it relieves me. "
20 " I don't even make it to the bed, sitting on the floor for no real reason, really, except the bed seems too comfortable, and I don't deserve to ride this misery out in any kind of comfort. "