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Nothing I say will change her mind. Years of loving her taught me that.

alternate book covers // romeo & juliet by william shakespeare

                                                                                         Just Fine, Thank You.

“What happens when she's not my memory anymore? What happens when she's not around to tell me about his belt leaving scars across my two-year-old brother's face or when he whacked her so hard that she lost her hearing for a week? Who'll be my memory?" Santangelo doesn't miss a beat. "I will. Ring me." "Same," Raffy says. I look at him. I can't even speak because if I do I know I'll cry but I smile and he knows what I'm thinking.”

My heart isn't simple or straightforward. It's a complicated mess of wants and needs, boys and girls: soft, rough, and everything in between, an ever-shifting precipice from which to fall.

alternate book covers // far from you by tess sharpe

I say it because I mean it. Because I have to, there is no choice, standing there with her: “I love you.” It’s there, just for a second. I see the flicker in her eyes, and she does so well to cover it, but I see it, before she hugs me and whispers against my ear, “I love you more.”