I’ve been thinking about that proof I spoke of last time – that you’re where you’re supposed to be. And it occurred to me, can you prove you’d be better off somewhere else? If you’d have left the stat...
Let me tell you girls a story, short and sweet. In high school, I was a junior varsity cheerleader dating a senior who was up for football scholarships. I'd slept with him several times willingly. One...
No importaba lo que le sucedía a alguna persona individual, la vida pasaba en otros lugares. La primera vez que Kennedy me besó, estaba a la razón de que al mismo tiempo, otras personas se separaban....
Or maybe I look in the mirror every day and am scared as shit that I’ll see either of my parents looking back at me.
After we broke up. You can say it. I won’t shatter, you know.’ We sit shoulder to shoulder on my bed, which seems as unbelievable as the subject we’re calmly discussing. ‘I know this might be difficul...
Despite the crushing weight of the expectations placed on her, from the theological to the self-inflicted, what I needed was the last, selfless thought in her sleepy head.
Even still, there’s more to this complex girl, and the physical craving I feel for her is merely an index to the rest of it. I know her patience, her kindness, her inherent desire to leave the world a...
Every moment was a before and an after. Every moment was a now to be lived.
You're so beautiful.
He looked up and caught me staring, and for the first time that morning, neither of us looked away until Erin said, J—pay attention! Just try to slap me. I broke the stare and turned to her. She moved...
He swallowed, closing his eyes and inhaling slowly. I knew he would be all rational and do-the-right-thing and he would push me away again, and I was determined not to give him that chance. But then h...
His protective wall had become a fortress holding him hostage rather than giving sanctuary.
I dreamed about the future because that’s what people persuade you to do when you’re a kid, but that’s the biggest lie of all – that you can plan. Reality is, you have no fucking clue what’s coming an...
I just told her I love her. There’s no going back. Nothing to do but own it. But there’s the crux of the matter—I want to own it.
I tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.
I was sure you 'd dropped the class, which made me selfishly ecstatic. Without even knowing i was doing it, i started looking for you on campus.
I would be her bad boy, if that’s what she wanted. If that’s what she needed.
I'm a coward. A willing coward, complicit in my own fall. I've never told him that I love him, as if refusing to say it aloud would somehow shield us both, but it hasn't. Like an untamed, sentient thi...
Some of us can begin to heal the damage people have done to us by escaping the situation, but some of us need more than that. Tattoos make statements that need to be made. Or hide things that are no o...
Lucas was fifteen minutes late to class on Friday, and we had a pop quiz first thing—which he missed. My first thought was how irresponsible it was to miss a quiz… and then I remembered that I missed...
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