My Heartbeat Quotes

My whole family's reaction to any kind of conflict is to avoid it. Each of us would prefer to spend money or chew off a limb rather than have a fight. Our aversion to fights is a quiet one except f...

James's parents are lawyers at a firm on Wall Street. They work even more than Mom and Dad do, but not because they need the money. Mr. Wentworth is from one of those families that haven't spent th...

"No, James is much cuter," Laurel says. "But Polly thinks it's too obvious he doesn't have time for girls." I think it's just as obvious that Link's time is similarly engaged, but I don't say anyth...

Dad's present is a hardcover copy of The Age of Innocence. It's by Edith Wharton, who also wrote Ethan Frome, which I have been trying to read all summer. It is required reading for incoming ninth...

F**got is one of the many words that I know are used instead of the pleasant-sounding gay, whose definition has totally eluded me tonight. There are a bunch of these words: queer, queen, fairy. How...

When I was little we used to sleep in each other's rooms the night before all special occasions: Christmas, trips to Europe, first days of school, and birthdays. We stopped when I was nine or ten....

"When you grow out of it, you will break my heart," he said. Almost two years later, and I'm still totally madly in love with James, but I'm more used to it. (1.6)

I never request anything, of course. I think half the reason the two of them let me spend so much time in their company is that they forget I'm there. It's why I have to hide just how much I am tot...