“She had no experience of crushing on someone like that. She hadn't realized before how frightening it was to look a dream in the face. To realize how much it could change you live, and how much it could demand of you.”
“I didn't realize until those few days how much a hug meant. To have someone hold you could be the greatest medicine of all.”
“All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.”
“But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, they could slip through your fingers like water, and there was nothing you could do about it.”
“And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy.”
“I hadn't realized how much I'd been needing to meet someone I might be able to say everything to.”