7 Quotes by Jennifer Dugan

I know I don’t have the face of a woman who walks into an office and demands answers - I have the faces of a girl trying to be too many things at once.

My whole life might be a never-ending series of question marks right now, but this I'm sure of. This I want.

I’m not too big for this town, Dad. I never will be.

And I get it now, I that’s all he could ever be, that’s all anyone else could ever be: a Band-Aid, a butterfly strip, a temporary measure, because this is the after, and all of the good stuff got left behind in the before.

I deserve to be wooed. I deserve to know that the person I’m falling for is falling for me right back. I deserve grand gestures and romance and all that other good stuff.

I flick my eyes to the spot on her shoulder where her freckles match the constellations in the sky, and I smile. I get lost in her skin, sipping my drink and mapping the stars on her arm while everyone else talks and eats and laughs around me.

Wow", she breathes when I'm finally done. And I think I want to live here, in the space of that "wow," In that one little syllable she's managed to stuff so full of adoration and joy.