Cool for the Summer

“Just because you're telling a good story, doesn't mean it's the right story. And I think that it's really important to tell the right story.”

“If being bi means always knowing, well, that isn't me. The only girls on my bedroom walls are my friends, and I'm certainly not into any of them that way. That settles it. I'm straight. Just like I always thought. I wait for the feeling of a weight lifting from my shoulders, but it never comes.”

“What am I? It's one summer. You can't change into a different person over a summer.”

“I think we’ve both waited long enough to turn the page in this story, don’t you?”

“I think about that handshake a lot, because it reassures me that it was clearly just a friendly suggestion. I had no idea what it would spark.”

“But just because you're telling a good story doesn't mean it's the right story" -Clementine Walker”

“And sometimes when you like the gender you’re ‘supposed’ to like, it’s not so clear what’s happening with the others.”

“I don't even realize we're falling out of our chairs until we land on the sand, our laughter floating into the summer night amid the crackling flames until our mouths find each other again and there's no more laughing at all.”

“Sorry, neither is of course also an option. In this house, we respect aromantics and asexuals.”

“Sometimes it's so fucking exhausting to feel good that it doesn't even feel good when it should.”