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“The first time I heard you laugh,
I only wanted to say funny things
so you would always be laughing.
You know what happens to chocolate
when you leave it out in the sun?
I’m that unfortunate chocolate
and you, you are the laughing sun.
For this reason, I am offering myself to you
not as a martyr or some selfless fool,
but as a self-indulgent moth
who actively pursues the light
without much fear for the flame.
The moth who revels in the heat
and declares:
Burn me.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“You are the Daughter of Death," hissed Aru. "You don't walk into a telephone pole because of a boy.”
― Roshani Chokshi, Aru Shah and the End of Time

“When you are younger and know no better, an infatuation can lead all the world to burn.”
― Rin Chupeco, The Bone Witch

“I guess crushes that have lasted for years don’t go away that easily.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow

“I’m just saying that there are plenty of girls who would. So it means more if he likes you enough that he kissed you.��
That actually makes a weird kind of sense, which suggests I’ve been spending too much time out in the sun with Rachel today.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow, Loving Summer

“Oh, Summer, I’m sorry. It’s just that he’s so totally hot, and�� not as hot as Ryan, obviously.��
“Obviously,�� I say, trying to keep a straight face.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow, Loving Summer

“I can compete with a lot of things, but a whole lifetime’s worth of crush isn’t one of them.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow”
― Kailin Gow, Loving Summer

“I had no technique for dealing with him: only an overpowering, unnerving, irrational, chemical desire to be with him.”
― Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado

“It's a strange feeling to like someone so much and yet be terrified to have them in your space, touching you. It isn't that I don't like it when we touch- when we brush arms or when he taps me on the shoulder or when I pick a piece of lint off his shirt. I like it too much. My body gets excited without my permission, and it's not okay. It's out of control.”
― Francesca Zappia, Eliza and Her Monsters

“The feeling was wild and sort of unpredictable, like a good summer storm.”
― Ashley Herring Blake, Ivy Aberdeen's Letter to the World

“It's almost funny: you think you matter to someone. They're the center of your universe, the sun you revolve around. You'd give anything for their details. You inch closer, closer, with tentative steps. You can walk as far as you want, but it won't matter. You are not even on their map.”
― Danya Kukafka (author)

“I will remember the feel of his hand around mine for the rest of my life.”
― Meg Leder, The Museum of Heartbreak

“She’s not into you, Tom. She doesn’t love you. You can’t force someone to love you by doing them favors.”
― A.O. Monk, I Am Not Thirteen

“He's a good looking guy, no question. All bluster and confidence while I'm whatever the opposite of that is. Apologies and embarrassment. Awkwardness and sorrow. First dead in a zombie apocalypse”
― Bill Konigsberg, The Music of What Happens

“Who?'
'Abby Suso.'
I almost choke.”
― Becky Albertalli, Leah on the Offbeat

“He wasn't like those handsome men you see on the fashion billboards. He was handsome in a rugged way like a wood cutter with an unkempt beard or a man who just finished fixing the engine of his car, wiping his oily hands over his white flannel shirt. Like a man who knows that he has starry eyes that can bring stars closer but doesn't even bother to look.”
― Malak El Halabi

“No one could deny that his face matched the sexy timbre of his voice; he was strikingly beautiful, with shaggy black hair and piercing eyes. A little bit of his mouth always remained open, even when his lips were closed in a tiny, perfect diamond shape.
He was two men: there was the one she saw in interviews- goofy, self-effacing, and gifted with the ability to make fun of himself and his profession, which put everyone at ease- and then there was the other Callum, the one on stage. Magnetic, dark, guarded, as if he was holding something back, as if it would simply be too much to give his purest and most authentic self to the audience.”
― Amy S. Foster, When Autumn Leaves

“His diaphragm fluttered. And of course it couldn’t have been lust or love and it didn't feel like like, so it must have been what the kids at school called like-like.”
― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines

“Shoot," Hannah says, as if she weren't just begging the universe for this exact scenario to unfold. "He's actually coming over here! What do we do?”
― Emily Henry, A Million Junes

“Many a woman secretly has a crush on a man who secretly has a crush on her man.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life is too short to spend your time pining for someone who isn't here.”
― Carole Matthews, It's Now or Never

“Secrets

I am all secrets now.

I know when you walk into a room.
I don't need to see or hear you
behind me,
but I know you're there
and wish you'd touch
my shoulder when you walk by.

How can you do that,
without a sound,
send electricity,
a current
through a room full of people?

When did this crazy secret life start?
People see me but don't see
I've changed.
The me people see isn't the tangled
me inside,
trying not to think
about you,
your laugh
splashing like a waterfall
on a hot summer day.”
― Pat Mora, Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love

“If I have a crush on you, you gotta crush on me too. It's only polite!!!”
― Nitya Prakash

“There is no one to laugh with about his cookies and milk, to gush about the fact that he is eighteen like I am eighteen only he seems much older.”
― Uzodinma Iweala, Speak No Evil

“On realising what has been said, for Jason, Adam might as well have bought out a gun. “No WAY man.�� Jason yelps, before controlling himself. He nearly ends up wearing the meal for a hat, not forgetting earning some pretty hard glares �� not that he seems to care. “Not everyone is as insane as you.�� He continues in a hushed whisper, scooping onto his plate some very soggy and watery-looking peas. ”You can’t just go up to a girl and tell them that you like them, especially not Jen. That’s complete and utter madness. MADNESS. She’d flip...badly.�� Jason concludes. “She’d flip…then she’d kill me with whatever was nearby and knowing Jen, that could be ANYTHING!”
― Adele Rose, Damned

“I loved you because.
You were like a cold breeze of sultry summer for me.
I don't know, Why my heart pumped so fast?
My words inevitably betrayed me. Your single look was like spring in dessert. The heart was so pleased that it said, this was the moment it started beating.”
― KAMLESH MISHRA

“I write what I can't say out loud.
I'm trying not to think about you, but
I can't resist.
My mind drifts to your slow smile,
how it moves
from your lips to your eyes��
or is it the reverse? How it lifts me
from my ordinary self.

Do you ever want to hold my hand?

When we're talking, and others join us,
when you laugh with them, I feel tangled
up inside, angry. I struggle not to be rude.
I want to be alone with you.
I love our aloneness.

When I listen to music, I imagine
slow dancing with you, and you whisper
into my hair, 'You are my one true love,'
and I smile
and know
why people write music and paint
and dance, lifted as if they can fly,
because this ache
crashing inside
needs to be free.
Sometimes, love
becomes a melody
others hum for years.”
― Pat Mora, Dizzy in Your Eyes: Poems about Love

“Sweetheart, someone, somewhere is madly crushing on you right now even while you crib about your crush showering attention elsewhere.”
― Nitya Prakash

“I have a crush on you�� lies somewhere between “I like you�� and “I love you��. A beautiful possibility of turning, either way, depending upon the reaction it evokes. Value it.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Oh?�� A translation of the word oh: WHY TELL ME WHY TELL ME WHY TELL ME WHY TELL ME�� “Because I met you,�� she continued. “Oh.�� A further analysis of the word oh: OHGODOHGODOHGODOHGOD.”
― Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt