Quote by Melanie Benjamin

“I loved the boy you were but I'm in love with the man you have become.”

— Kathleen Ball

“This boy loved me the way I’d always wanted to be loved, the way I needed to be loved, and he gave his life…

— Apryl Baker

“for we should rejoice in being seen, needed. Loved.”

— Melanie Benjamin

“I admired him more than anyone but I didn't wish him well. It was that I preferred him to me and wanted to be…

— Hanif Kureishi

“We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult.”

— Jessica Spotswood

“loved seeing him this way.  I loved being the one who could make him smile like that, and most important, I knew I loved…

— Jenna Bernel

“I fell in love with a boy, so effortlessly kind. He showed me a world of possibility, a world of beauty I had never…

— Liz Newman

“Suddenly, I couldn't turn away from his piecing, infectious gaze. He was wrong and tragic and gorgeous all at the same time. At that…

— Melody Lee

“... I'm still that girl who loved him, and he's still that boy who loves me. And that' we'll find a our way back…

— Jessi Kirby

“You deserve someone who will feel you at her side without needing to see you. And I've only felt that way about one boy.”

— Renee Ahdieh

“I loved him for his beauty. As I would again if he came near. Beauty convinces.”

— Anne Carson

“I never lost the certainty that he was the perfect boy. The perfect boy for me anyway. I just tried not to think about…

— Cat Clarke