In Waiting

"His every syllable flirted. Honestly, he kind of turned me on. I didn’t even know that guys could turn me on–not, like, in real life."

"And then he’d kissed her; her first proper kiss, and the electric light bulb inside her head had exploded so that everything burned white."

"A moment ago, everything had been in slow motion, and now it was as if someone had yelled “Cut!” and the spell was broken. I was supposed to kiss her, he thought, and the whole evening felt suddenly like a song that had been switched off before the last bars had played, leaving only a wrenching sense of incompleteness."

"if you’re happy & you know it, clap your hands."