This is a passage from Looking For Alaska by John Green. I haven't read the book yet since I cannot find it on book stores but I am really hoping to have it soon. I read from reviews that it can be somewhat comparable to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye which I really love. So I think that might be a good book, although it has more of the romance side. Anyway, going back to the passage, I think it is one of the sweetest and most genuine words a man can say to a girl. I can see the naiveté and pure intention of that guy and at the same time, pain. I heard this is a young adult fiction so I am inferring that this is another coming of age story, and I can really feel how the guy is looking back from his earlier years and narrating how he was helplessly in love or infatuated with the girl.
The top three lines I like most:
1. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase.
- I love how the guy, unlike most guys in the world, would just want to embrace the girl while they sleep because all he ever wants is to be with her and not to get inside her.
2. But I lacked courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating.
-I love how the guy can still like her despite the fact that she has a boyfriend. I love how the guy look up to her by complimenting her while he is too humble at himself. I dunno but that is incredibly sweet when a guy did this, especially when you know he is not really that inferior.
3. I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.
- I am too swooned by this line. Enough said.
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