“We're only three class sessions in and I'm already behind? And to hear it from him? This buttoned-up Bible-thumper I can't get… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Inside my chest, my lungs are wild animals, clawing at the cage. "Oh, man," Autumn mumbles from beside me. "His smile makes… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Light bursts behind my closed eyes, so intensely I nearly hear the popping sound. It's my brain melting, or my world ending,… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I am a monster beneath him, with arching hips, an octopus with hands everywhere at once. I don't think anything in the… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“The things that I love about you aren't going to go away when you go on your book tour, and they're not… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“He's not recruiting me to the oiled-up Gay Bliss Club of Northern Utah, but to the LDS Church.” — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“His voice is both low and quiet, and it has this hypnotic rhythm to it. I wonder whether someday he'll give sermons… — Christina Lauren Copy Share Image
“I can't read him. I can't grasp him. I have no idea what he's thinking and if he's messing with me or… — 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
