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8f761b5
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I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
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love
julia-romano
unrequited
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Jodi Picoult |
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0047eb4
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"I lean against my sister's shoulder. "I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice." "Sure it does," Izzy tells me. "But only if you're too dumb to move." --
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metaphor
relationships
julia-romano
lightning
sisters
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Jodi Picoult |
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c80899e
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"Let me guess," Seven said last night. "The first was a rebound. The second was married." How'd you know?" He laughed. "Because you're a cliche."
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relationships
rebound
julia-romano
seven
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Jodi Picoult |
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4f08d8d
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"I told Seven the Bartender that true love is felonious. "Not if they're over eighteen," he said, shutting the till of the cash register. By then the bar itself had become an appendage, a second torso holding up my first. "You take someone's breath away," I stressed. "You rob them of the ability to utter a single word." I tipped the neck of the empty liquor bottle toward him. "You steal a heart." He wiped up in front of me with a dishrag. "Any judge would toss that case out on its ass." "You'd be surprised." Seven spread the rag out on the brass bar to dry. "Sounds like a misdemeanor, if you ask me." I rested my cheek on the cool, damp wood. "No way," I said. "Once you're in, it's for life."
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true-love
love
julia-romano
seven-the-bartender
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Jodi Picoult |