“Life is built of these little horrible moments and the giant expanses of awesome in between.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“My love for her was a heavy, pulsing, living thing, and it made me feel crazy, and anxious, and famished.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“You realize early in life that beauty is only skin-deep, and ugly goes straight to the bone.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I'd definitely found my equal, the woman who made my life a living hell and lived to antagonize me. A woman whose… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Figure out how to balance Oliver with a career you’ve wanted your whole life,” he tells me. “Because you’ll end up with… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I hate that I've worked so hard but when I look around--compare my life to everyone else's--it feels like such a small… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Which was your favorite? Living room, or bed, or floor, or bed, or wall, or mirror, or bar, or floor?” “Shhh,” I… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Now, before you think I’m putting too much thought into this, let me remind you that I am no longer in my… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“As I slip in, I wonder whether, in ten years, I’ll hear a riff or an opening chord to one of the… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I’d had a few of these quiet, crystallizing moments in the past few weeks. Moments where I simultaneously registered how much I’d… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“But missing him every day for the rest of my life was still easier than the fight Sebastian had: to stuff himself… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Life was built from the bricks of these connections and milestones and moments where you tell your two best friends that you’re… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I set my glass down and met his eyes, feeling an overwhelming surge of affection for this man. "That ... makes sense," I said,… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“But this...writing about how it feels to listen to music, to have found him--it almost feels like I'm writing a description of how my organs work… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“It's possible I mentally calculate the danger of being relatively drunk for the entirety of the next few weeks.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Bennett was here. And he looked terrible. He'd lost weight, and although he was neatly dressed and clean-shaven, his clothes hung all wrong on… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“(...) loving someone isn't enough, that you must wait until you find your heart.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“He shakes his head, and I think this moment, right here, is when it really hits me that Sebastian's identity isn't queer. It's not… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“ Mmpf . You’re so heavy. Do you have bricks in your pocket? Get off me.” “But you’re so warm,” he whines. “And soft.… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“One month flies by when you're falling love with the woman you're using for sex. Two is an eternity when the woman you love… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I’ve never seen him arrive or leave, because I always walk past him, drop a dollar bill in his case, and keep moving. Then,… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“He nodded again and I was tempted to tell him the rule of silence: sometimes an awkward silence is actually far less awkward than… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“You obviously don;t understand a thing about men. Or, more specifically, this man." "I don't?" "No, I'm not scared of periods, and you could… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Mike Hawk!” Bennett practically yelled at me, dropping his hand. His eyes were red from laughing. “How am I supposed to keep it together… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
