she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.

She wanted him to notice her so much.

Can you make yourself love? Can you make yourself loved? -Lena Kaligaris

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

He could lose himself in her forever, he thought.

Show me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl who can't put her pants on. -Annik Marchand

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.