“She was so cold, she probably farted ice cubes.”
“The U.S. Postal Service should hire him for an ad campaign. If he were at the mailbox every time you sent a letter, no one would use email ever again.”
“Do I look like a freaking fairy - tale princess to you?”
“- I was a tired mess. My eyes didn't just have bags - they had five-piece luggage sets.”
“I longed to know what it felt like to have one person eclipse everything bad in your life - be a place of pure joy.”
“Want to start a fairy-tale romance with me? BTW it might be doomed, k?”
“This guy had more lines than loose-leaf.”
“Oh, come on, Ash, that smells like a unicorn fart.”
“What I was hungry for was sitting nonchalantly next to me on the couch.”
“I got lost in my doodles, and started daydreaming.”
“I go running in the park all the time. I guess I never looked up.”
“What's a girl to do when meeting The One means she's cursed to die a horrible death?”
“I wasn’t exactly a stranger to feeling like a princess—if you meant the princess in the first half of the fairy tale. Cinderella as a scullery maid. Snow White with the wicked stepmother. But I wasn’t used to what life was like after you meet the prince, after the slipper fits, after the kiss wakes you from your slumber. It would take some getting used to.”
“I felt myself fall more deeply in love with him, with this strangely perfect person who for some reason, decided to love me back.”
“i longed to know what it felt like to have one person eclipse everything bad in your life- be a pure place of joy”
“I want you here when I go to sleep." He licks my bottom lip. "And I want you here when I wake up. Starting and ending my day with you is all I need.”
“Things are not as they seem. They are what they are.”
“Well, how else to explain… all of this? Or me, of course? Or us? Snocones, Pokémon, the Simpsons, the justice system in America, iPods.”
“I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.”
“Where is the dog tag you found?”
“What?” Shelton yipped. “We…lost it.”
“Where?”
“In the woods. After we ran.”
“Where in the woods? Ran from what?”
“Oh, uh…Tory dropped the tag when we ran from…whatever.”
“From whatever?” Hi hammered. “Did you see men with guns or not?”
“Um, no. I guess not.”
“You guess?”
“It was dark.” Shelton struggled. “I realize now that nobody was there.”
“Then what did you hear?”
“Uh, er…pops. Like sticks breaking?”
Shelton’s responses were growing increasingly feeble.
“How many? From which direction?”
“Lots. Like, from everywhere.”
Hi’s eyebrows shot up. “You heard ‘lots’ of ‘pops like sticks’ coming from everywhere? That’s your story?”
“Wait, no, not everywhere. From the…left?”
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