Laura Nowlin Biography & Quotes

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“I can see some of the roses still blooming in my mother's garden. Brown on the edges and bright in other colors, they open and unfold, their petals drooping downward, dying just as their lives have begun.”

Love Romance Sadness Ya

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“But you think we're here for beautiful things and you think sadness is beautiful?" "It can be," I say.”

Beauty Sadness Autumn If He Had Been With Me

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“And I know that winter is supposed to end, but things aren't always the way they are supposed to be.”

Sadness Winter Autumn If He Had Been With Me

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“Sometimes I am disappointed with love.”

Love Sadness If He Had Been With Me

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“but sometimes I wonder if she would have cared as much if I had been ugly as well as odd.”

Beauty Sadness Ugly If He Had Been With Me

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“It was another momen when one of us could have said something, could have given us time, but neither of us did. We looked at each other until I couldn't bear it anymore.”

Love Silence Autumn If He Had Been With Me Finny

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“I've loved him my whole life, and somewhere along the way, that love didn't change but grew. It grew to fill the parts of me that I did not have when I was a child. It grew with every new longing of my body and desire until there was not a piece of me that did not love him. And when I look at him, there is no other feeling in me.”

Love Friendship Growing Up Relationship Childhood

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“It hurts for him to smile at me like that.”

Love Smile Autumn If He Had Been With Me Finny

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“Stay I whisper to him. Stay in the car. Stay in this moment. But of course he never does.”

Sad Autumn Finny

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“Finny?” I say. There is silence. “Oh, Autumn,”

Sad Heartbreaking Friends To Lovers

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“Finny?" "Oh Autumn”

Sad

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“On August 8, Phineas Smith died”

Sad

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“You have leaves in your hair,” Finny says. “And in your tiara. And everywhere.” I raise my hand and run my fingers through my hair, and he does not move. The sun is gone now, and the evening shifts around us as cars’ headlights throw their light at us and pass on. I see his handsome face and his half smile and the golden lock of hair hanging in his face. I love you, Finny, I think.”

Infatuation

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“And then she kisses him. And I start reading.”

Love Jealousy Autumn If He Had Been With Me Finny

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“You just see things differently and that's okay, because I like you weird. You're my weird, morbid pretty girl.”

Love Acceptance Silly Hopeful Weird

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“I'm sorry for kissing you." "Don't say that," I say. "Don't say you're sorry for that.”

Love Kiss Autumn If He Had Been With Me Finny

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“When you're reading a book and you can't focus, ask yourself, 'How much is the writer's fault, and how much is mine?' Be honest. That's how you'll know if you should set it aside forever or for a few hours.”

Reading Books Author Read

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“In those early days of the summer, when Autumn and I started hanging out again, I hadn’t planned to break up with Sylvie. What would have been the point? I was still in love with Sylvie, and when I originally fell in love with her, I’d already been in love with Autumn for years. So emotionally, for me, nothing had really changed. But over the past few weeks, it’s become clear: I love Sylvie, but I can’t say that I will be in love with her every day for the rest of my life. I adore so much about her and understand her foibles, but I’m not devoted to her. She’s a partner but not a part of who I am. My devotion to Autumn is engraved on my very being. I am in awe of her. I will sit in the stands and cheer her on in life as her most ardent admirer. I know I will always love her in the same way I know I’ll always need oxygen.”

Romance Quotes Young Adult Romance If He Had Been With Me Finn And Autumn If Only I Had Told Her Laura Nowlin

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“Finn, it's high school. It's an ecosystem, and you just stot right to the top of the food pyramid!”

Funny High School Popular Ecosystem

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“Oh,” I say, “Sylvie is a cheerleader. She’s on student council and the honor roll. She’s too busy being perfect to be shooting up heroin on the side.”

Jealousy Teen Fiction Teenage Love Perfect Girl

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“I imagine Finny and I sneaking out of our houses to fool around at the creek. I imagine leaving my blinds open for him when I change clothes. I imagine his hands moving up my thigh as we watch a movie with a blanket thrown over our laps. I imagine that even though we were friends as children, we wouldn’t have stayed children just because we were together.”

Teenage Love

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“I could close my eyes and believe that we have never been apart. I could invent a new past to remember.”

Past Autumn Seperation If He Had Been With Me Finny

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“We're going to get ice cream,' Finny says. 'I'm being kidnapped,' I say.”

Funny Cute Ironic Ice Cream Kidnapped Sad Book

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“Sometime I am disappointed with love. I thought that when you were in love, it would always be right there, starting you in the face, reminding you every moment that you love this person. It seems that it isn't always like that. Sometimes I know that I love Jamie, but I don't feel it, and I wonder what it would be like to be with someone else. I love him the most when we fight and I am scared that he will leave me. After we fight, I want so much to be close ot him, and the next day I want his hand in mine every minute. Sometimes he loves me more than I love him, and he wants me to pay attention to him, but I wish he would leave me alone so that I could go back to reading or talking to Angie about Mrs. Adams. Sometimes we both love each other a lot and its hard to hang up at night, and I wish it could always be like that.”

Love Relationships Contemporary Romance Yearning Heartfelt Conflicted Feelings

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“I try again. 'Like fairy-tale love? Cartoon character with hearts floating all around him? Or a movie montage with the best song? That's what you were to him.' I'm sniffling, but I need to finish. 'You were the biggest, most impossible dream for him.”

Tragic Ugh

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“Like most of my stories, it will end tragically.”

Writing Books Autumn If He Had Been With Me

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“It was the sort of happiness that fools you into thinking that there is still so much more, maybe even enough to laugh forever.”

Temporary Happiness A Moment Of Happiness

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“that maybe I never knew what friendship was until it was taken from me.”

Friendship

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