“But even in the dark, I could see her eyes--fierce emeralds. She had the kind of eyes that predisposed you to supporting her every endeavor.”Tagged: Love, Lust, Female Body, Female Beauty, Love & Relationships
“You can't just make me different and leave.”Tagged: Love, Relationships, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Female Mind, Leaving
“The glittering ambiguity of a girl’s smile, which seems to promise an answer to the question but never gives it. The question, the one we’ve all been asking since girls stopped being gross, the question that is too simple to be uncomplicated: Does she like me or like me?”Tagged: Love, Relationships, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Female Mind
“I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved. I still did not know her as I wanted to, but I never could. She made it impossible for me.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, After Death, Love, Love After Death
“More than anything, I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Understanding Death, After Death, Love, Love After Death
“'Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the television and said, 'You'll never get me. That's the whole point.'”Tagged: Trying To Understand, Love, Understanding The Opposite Sex, Understanding Love, Understanding Life
“I would never know her well enough to know her thoughts in those last minutes, would never know if she left us on purpose. But the not-knowing would not keep me from caring, and I would always love.”Tagged: Instant, Death, Quickness, Quickness Of Death, Explaining Death
“I realized the importance of curves, of the thousand places where girls' bodies ease from one place to another, from arc of the foot to ankle to calf, from calf to hip to waist to breast to neck to ski-slope nose to forehead to shoulder to the concave arch of the back to the butt to the etc. I'd…”Tagged: Girls, Curves, Girls With Curves, Appreciation Of The Female Body, Female Body
“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was…”Tagged: Love, Looking At Her, Sleeping, Innocence, Crush