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"Victor and Eli should just get married at this point. They are just bros in love who wanna kill each other 😭" — Sep 25, 2024 04:58AM
"Victor and Eli should just get married at this point. They are just bros in love who wanna kill each other 😭" — Sep 25, 2024 04:58AM


“Kissing a stranger you'd never see again, kissing someone whose name you didn't even know, just to feel a little high in that moment. Just to feel the warmth of someone's skin on yours. Just, for a while, to feel purely alive. God. I wished I could do that. But the idea of trying to get with any of these people--no matter their gender--was, honestly, unnerving. It made me feel itchy. Shivery, maybe. It filled my stomach with a weird, horrible dread, and a warning siren went off in my brain. It felt like my antibodies were fighting it off.”
― Loveless
― Loveless

“I just care about you so much...but I've always got this fear that...one day you'll leave. Or Pip and Jason will leave, or...I don't know.' Fresh tears fell from my cheeks. 'I'm never going to fall in love, so...my friendships are all I have, so...I just...can't bear the idea of losing any of my friends. Because I'm never going to have that one special person.”
― Loveless
― Loveless

“Nothing fazed Jason. He had whatever the opposite of anxiety was. Absolute unerring peace of mind.”
― Loveless
― Loveless

“It was because of all of that, no doubt, that this new identity felt like a loss, when in reality, it should have been a beautiful discovery.”
― Loveless
― Loveless

“It was something adults said all the time. "You'll change your mind when you're older. You never know what might happen. You'll feel differently one day." As if we teenagers knew so little about ourselves that we could wake up one day a completely different person. As if the person we are right now doesn't matter at all.”
― Loveless
― Loveless

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