I don't want you to go," Sam said. She was upset. "I don't want this to end like this."
"You don't get to choose," Lincoln said. "It's just happening.
It's okay if you're crazy," he said softly.
"You don't even know-"
"I don't have to know," he said. "I'm rooting for you.
There wasn’t anything Lincoln wanted that he couldn’t afford. What did he really want, anyway? To buy new books when they came out in hardback. To not have to think about how much money was in his wallet when he was ordering dinner. Maybe new sneakers …And there wasn’t anything he wanted to do that he couldn’t make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want?
Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose.
Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can’t plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don’t happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?
I didn't know love could leave the lights on all the time. Do you know what I mean?"
"Not exactly."
"I thought it took more naps. Or blinked. I didn't know it could just go on and on and like this without falling off an edge. Like pi."
"What kind of pie?"
"No, pi..."
"Lincoln...
"Lincoln? Are you asleep?
"I didn't know someone could love me like this," she said. "Could love me and love me and love without...needing space."
"There's no air in space.
But the aching faded, too. Things get better - hurt less - over time. If you let them.
Rainbow RowellI still feel really hopeless sometimes. I don't like my job. And I've stopped thinking about finding another one. And, even though I hardly ever think about Sam anymore, it still seems impossible that I might have something like that again. A relationship, I guess.
Rainbow RowellDid you chase it away?" she asked.
"What?"
"Whatever was making you want to drink that much."
He closed his eyes. Beth. "No," he said "but I might be done trying.
Do you feel like he ignores you?"
"No. I feel like he doesn't see me.
You think that holding someone hard will bring them closer. You think that you can hold them so hard that you'll still feel them, embossed on you, when you pull away.
Every time Eleanor pulled away from Park, she felt the gasping loss of him.
Tag: friendship love relationships missing hugs missing-someone
Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular months—they're like dog months.
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