9 Quotes by Tess Sharpe

We walk into the rest of our lives together, not knowing it'll end before it's truly started.

It was Mina this whole time, wasn’t it?" I give him the only thing I can: the cold, hard truth. The one that’ll rewrite every memory he has - of him and me, her and me, the two of them, all three of us: "It’ll always be Mina.

My heart has a piece of Wes wrapped around it like a bandage. My skin will hold the memory of him as permanent, because you don't forget the first person to touch you with love after life's taught you all touch is fear and pain.

She thinks it's my fault. It makes me feel like something hot and heavy's pressing into my head, my neck buckling under the weight of it.

It was the perfect meet-cute, except when you're a girl who likes other girls, there's this little additional dance, because what if she doesn't? So you're not looking for red flags like a girl does with a guy---you're looking for rainbow ones.

I fell like a star and she was the end of the world. A cataclysmic crash of two people. Never to be the same. Never getting back up. Not unless we were doing it together.

She was in love with you,” he says. “And I don’t think she got to tell you, did she?”My heart lurches, seizes inside my chest, fluttering to life at the words I’ve always wanted to hear. I shake my head. Tears spill down my cheeks.“She loved you. She wanted to be with you. That’s why she told me about herself. She said she’d made her choice. It was you. I think it was always you.

I don't say what I'm thinking. I don't tell him how lucky he is, that he can just sit there and admit it, sheepish, but unashamed. Like it's his right. Like it's okay, because she's supposed to belong to someone like him, instead of someone like me.

Sometimes you've got to save people from themselves. Even if they don't want it or know it.