“I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms
around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have
sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase.
But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend
and I was gawky and she was gorgeous
and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating.
So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking
that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.”
John Green