I spoke like a spoke on a wheel, as I went around and around without actually saying what I wanted to say. I was love flustered.

I know you don’t love me that way. Don’t you think I know that by now? But you don’t know how I feel about you. No one does.””Tell me, then.””Day, you mean more to me...

Savannah’s breath caught in her chest at the realization of how close they were standing. He brushed a strand of hair off her face, his finger leaving a line of heat across her cheek. If...

Can I kiss you again?” I nod. So he does.

If I had a crush on a guy, my tactic was to tell them I had a crush on them. And they always thought it was super-cute, so it usually worked in my favor!

I had this vision of the two of us holding hands or getting into some light petting behind shower curtains or up in the fencing aisle or some shit.

You can call me Dani… Or anything you’d like except DD, um, in high school some people called me Double D’s because of that name and because I have big boobs—” I cut off abruptly...

I liked this girl in my sixth grade class. I dared her to kiss me — but she didn’t!

I was merely observing; I have no agenda.” He looked at his hand, still touching hers. “Where did you get that ring?”She contracted her hand into a fist as she pulled it away from him....

Paradoxically, the more Michael kept me at a distance, the more I trusted him – perhaps because he was always willing to help me with tips and introductions even though he wanted absolutely nothing from...

Every word you’ve ever said, is written somewhere in my mind.

I used to have a big crush on Andie MacDowell.

Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er.

Affirmative.”Affirmative? Was that the cutest or what?

To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the...

‘When did you first fall in love?’ ‘I think, I first fell in love when I was in fifth grade with this boy who kept his glass ruler in the sunlight and made rainbows on...

Alex Barrow’s broad face, with the roughened skin that gave him an air of experience. His powerful, packed, wrestler’s body. The thick black fur at the base of his throat. It was wrong to call...

Oh, those warm days of stumbling words; blinded eyes, embracing in sweet slow dances and sipping courage from a bottle for sneaking kisses.

I always go for confident girls!

It’s bewildering to me how you can just start chatting with a complete stranger on Facebook, and – next thing you know – it seems as if there’s some intense connection with the person –...

Because he says he can’t stand you and you act like you can’t stand him, and whenever a man and a woman behave like that toward each other, it usually means something’s going on.

You like him, Rose. Why don’t you just admit that, at least to me?

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer’s block.

I could survive for months, years, on a crush.

To be CREATIVE, you have to be CRAZY, not because you’re CRAZY or want others to become CRAZY, but because you must be CRAZY, before others become CRAZY for you.

She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it to blow so strongly that it stops the...

Why are you limping like that?’ Nicholas demanded.’I’m swaggering,’ I informed him.’You look like you’re wearing a diaper.’Charming. And I had a crush on this guy.Wait. I had a crush on this guy?’Now what?’ he...

My heart had been touched by him, battered by him, cradled by him as the days passed. He was cruel without meaning to be yet he was kind, and I needed him too much to...

I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.

Love gives you wings. Icarus and the Challenger both had wings, and so did my first love letter, after I folded it up and flung it at my crush.

Eternal Flame”s—the ones you sing into a hairbrush-microphone at the top of your lungs with your best friends on a Saturday night.

Nico studied his face – his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackson seemed like a regular guy now, not a mythical figure. Not someone to idolize or crush on.

Even without a kiss, this moment is perfect, and you wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Those who pretend as if they don’t love you, are the ones who would hate to see you love another person.

I hung a picture of him above my bed and learned by hand the internal workings of the female combustion engine.

This put me very close to Jay and it was as uncomfortable as it was mystifying. It was uncomfortable because I still wasn’t sure I liked him all that much. It was mystifying because his...

Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.

Love is a word that is overused these days, due to other lesser feelings often being mistaken for it. Infatuation, admiration, and attraction can pose as love, and can sometimes overwhelm us and fool us...

A beautiful girlfriend is worth two more.

I wasn’t used to guys making me blush, and I wasn’t sure why he even was making me blush.

Great. Men affectionately attacked me with sticks to show their admiration.

It’s like I’m thirteen again and he’s my crush. All I’m aware of in this entire roomful of people is him. Where he is, what he’s doing, who he’s talking to.

Maybe before you start flirting with boys and kissing boys and trying to date boys, you should know who you are and where you stand.

Dear Hope, I NEVER thought Id see the day when two of your daily e-mails sandwiched a message from none other than PAUL PARLIPIANO. My crush to end all crushes! Gay man of my dreams!...

I feel love is like a cigarette –you know it is not good for you but by the time you realize, you are so addicted to it that you can’t leave it.

I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

He seems to have become a part of my life and I’m disappointed if I don’t see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him,...

Today’s leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

I stared you chew down your Swedish meatballs. I hope you could see how you chewed my heart then spit it out

Ben made me laugh. I was attracted to his attraction for me: the way he smiled for instance, whenever he saw me, that goofy kind of grin that hijacks the face of the helplessly smitten.