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Park claims that Bono met his wife in high school. Eleanor responds that Jerry Lee Lewis did as well. He says, "I'm not kidding." We're 16, she says, so you should be. What about the story of Romeo and Juliet? Shallow, perplexed, and then dead. Park declares, "I love you." Eleanor resp... onds, "Wherefore art thou?" He says, "I'm not kidding." You ought to be. This is the story of two star-crossed misfits, set over the course of one school year in 1986, who are smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you'll be reminded of your own first love—and how deeply it drew you in.
READ MORESt. martin's griffin
Feb 26, 2013
1250012570 , 9781250012579
Kindle Edition
English
335
I don’t think I even breathe when we’re not together, she whispered. Which means, when I see you on Monday morning, it’s been like sixty hours since I’ve taken a breath. That’s probably why I’m so crabby, and why I snap at you. All I do when we’re apart is think about you, and all I do when we’re together is panic. Because every second feels so important. And because I’m so out of control, I can’t help myself. I’m not even mine anymore, I’m yours, and what if you decide that you don’t want me? How could you want me like I want you? He was quiet. He wanted everything she’d just said to be the last thing he heard. He wanted to fall asleep with I want you in his ears.
This morning, when she got on the bus, it kind of felt like he was waiting for her. He was holding a comic called Watchmen, and it looked so ugly that Eleanor decided not to bother eavesdropping. Or eavesreading. Whatever. (She liked it best when he read the X-Men, even though she didn’t get everything that was going on there; the X-Men were worse than General Hospital. It took Eleanor a couple weeks to figure out that Scott Summers and Cyclops were the same guy, and she still wasn’t sure what was up with Phoenix.)
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