Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me, ' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone, ' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath. Jodi Picoult
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  1. Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. - Charles Dickens

  2. And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pressing her lips together as though she were keeping my kiss inside her, and me, holding this moment that was as fragile as... - Maggie Stiefvater

  3. I didn't care who kissed you first as long as I kissed you last."- George from If We Kiss - Rachel Vail

  4. Don't kiss me like a woman if you're going to treat me like a child. - Jeaniene Frost

  5. Once she kissed me, my heart slowed, and every muscle in my body relaxed. How much I needed her terrified me. -pg 252/ARC - Jamie Mcguire

More Quotes By Jodi Picoult
  1. You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

  2. If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

  3. You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

  4. I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

  5. And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

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