Suki Fleet Quotes

I've not been through the shit you've been through, Danny. No one I love has died. But I do know that having smooth, unscarred skin does not make you beautiful. Shining like the brightest light in the dark does, though. And you light up everything. You light me up. I'm falling in love with you," he says simply.

I'm glad he can't see the way my stomach flips over as I speak or hear the way my heart is beating out a crazy rhythm in my chest. Can't lifetimes be measured in heartbeats? The faster a heart goes, the less time you have? Maybe Micky is bad for my health.

Because we are not brittle like glass, but more like the light that shines through it, bright and unending, without hierarchy or reason.
We are not sculptures, still and unyielding - we are alive and unfinished.
We are in love.
And it is enough

We were glass. So fragile. All it took was a little knock and we would shatter.

We hold eye contact until I start to feel dizzy from lack of oxygen. It's so terrifyingly tender that my chest hurts. For the first time in my life, it's as if someone sees me fully, seeing me and accepting everything that I am, inside and out. And I see him too - this scared, sweet boy, so vulnerable and emotionally wide open, who finds the world mostly terrifying but occasionally wonderful.

Later, we lie together in the half dark, no longer cold, no longer awkward. The torch is dimming as the wind billows against the fabric of the tent, noisy and heavy with spray from the sea, but nothing can touch us in here, no force of nature but time.