Lynn Painter

It took losing her for me to realize that loving her wasn’t even a risk

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Wes: Your secret is safe with me, Buxbaum

Me: You’re a sociopath.

Wes: Dare you

just saying that I like a girl who can make me laugh, that’s all. Someone I have fun with no matter what we’re doing.”

Sometimes we get so tied up in our idea of what we think we want that we miss out on the amazingness of what we could actually have.”

She’s not you.”
“What?”
“She. Isn’t. You.”

e’s pretty, but her face doesn’t transform into sunlight when she talks about music.” He did that clench thing with his jaw and said, “She’s funny, but not spit-out-your-drink-in-astonishment funny.”

“And when I see her, I don’t feel like I have to talk to her or mess up her hair or do something—anything—to get her to swing that gaze on me.”

fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn your cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you.”

“And I think I regret all of it. I miss your clothes and curly hair. You look best when you’re you.”