Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This." I said. And then I kissed him.
What," I said, "is that a crime here or something? Like only buying one thing at the Gas/Gro?
And the rest is history,' I said. Nah.' He shook his head. 'The rest is now.
Listen,"Kristy said," the truth is,nothing is guranteed. You know better than anybody." She looked at me hard,making sure I knew what she meant.I did."So don't be afraid.Be alive.
Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.
It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.
Welcome to adulthood," she said. "It sucks as much as high school.
How fast were you?" Wes asked me. I said, "Not that fast." "You mean you couldn't... fly?" he said, smiling at me.
I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?" Pass," he said. For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. "What?" He cleared his throat. "I said, I pass." Why?" He turned his head and looked at me. "Because." Because why?" Because I just do.
She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again.
I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope." Sure you don't, I thought.
'I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of." Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake." "Sure you do." "I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those." "Yeah? Prove it.
What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?
Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand.
It's gonna be okay," I said. It was the first time in a long time that I believed it. "It will.
It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You just do it.