romance

Your touch is / clear, transparent, mine / I know one of us will be wise / but maybe, no / not maybe, no such thing, sadly / we’re stubborn, enriched / in delectable chaos / and pity 

Despite letters’ loss of popularity in the modern age, letter writing is still quite present and important in our literature.

Something or anything? / No. Everything. / Yes, everything with you. / Maddie — vida mia.

In “American Cherry,” the typical coming-of-age story takes a dark twist as the protagonists’ growing romance is distorted into something more sinister, and ultimately deadly.

"I want her to text me. I want her to call me; I just want to know she’s thinking of me."

She’s not mine for the taking, but can’t I just imagine? / Would she care? / I think she wants me to want her — it pleases her. / And I want to please her, so I will. 

"Still, I’m afraid to forget you. I dread the day when I will forget these feelings — the day when I meet another girl and pursue her and not you. The day when I’ll sit down and realize that, when you pass by my mind, I don’t feel anything at all."

Without a doubt, you are ironically the cruelest of holidays, as you always discover unfathomable ways of blurring the lines between true love and pure hatred. My name may mean love in French, but I refuse to put up with you and what you stand for. 

At least make our love a sound that creates music. / That creates a feeling, a feeling similar to mine. / With that music, that sound, that feeling, please read me. 

this is the fire that poets speak about / that romantics write about, singers sing about, artists paint about, bohemians explore / the fire, the burn that I feel for you.