My Double Life

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back.

What was God thinking when he created a guy this handsome? He wasn't a gift to womankind, he was a torture device.

I didn't bother to explain about the glitter in my hair. I figured they could think it was a family trait. We all glittered, just like the Cullens in Twilight.

Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.

It's not like most people read anymore. Well, not unless the book has a wizard school or a hot vampire. And, as a Kari Kngsley expert, I'm absolutely certain your life has neither of those things.

The next level. As though dating were a computer game.

If I'd believed that stuff was true, I would have missed out on loving you.

So what were your favorite subjects in school?" "School?" He leaned back in his chair as though he needed the extra space to think about it. "Probably math. It always made sense. Unlike English, economics, and girls." "And exactly how do you plan on taking over the free world if you don't understand economics?" "I'll hire advisers. I'll hire you, in fact." "Okay. Let me know when your army of junior high zombies is ready.

I wound my arms around his neck and kissed him back, trying to capture this moment, to clasp it, so I could always remember what it felt like to hold him this way.

But if Grant doesn't like you for who you are, then he's not worth it.

You know, you’ve set a really bad precedent for first dates,” I said. “How is anyone ever going to top this?” I turned to him for the first time. He was watching me, not the scenery. “I brought you here because I wanted to see the look on your face when you saw this place.” He smiled, and my heart flipped over. “It was worth the trip.

I wondered if a mall Santa had ever been dragged away in handcuffs and charged for fraud, but I didn't ask.

You can’t rush your muse. They don’t punch time clocks.

Alexia, do you want to come down here?

There was Hayley Powers in the first grade. I asked her to marry me and she stuck her tongue out. Put me right off proposing.

I'm pretty sure my mom would have remembered giving birth to twins and then losing one somewhere along the way. When