You 're so beautiful.

No matter what happened to any individual person, life was going on elsewhere. The first time Kennedy kissed me, it stood to reason that at the same time, other people were splitting up. And the night Kennedy broke my heart, somewhere - maybe right there in my dorm, other people were falling in love.

Really, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A physical assault, it might have understood.

I want it to be better than okay. You deserve better than okay.

If someone had asked, How does this compare to kissing Kennedy? I would have answered, "Who?"

Wow, that sounds total stalker." Or totally hot. God.

He was in a slow-motion mood-one of my favorites, though it meant i'd be driven crazy before we were done.