Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist."
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"I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas tree agnostic." He smiles. "I like it and you're a Yom Kippur atheist."
"لا أعرف ما أؤمن به. أظن أن هذا يجعلني لا أدريًا في شأن شجرة الميلاد." ابتسم. "أعجبني هذا، وأنت ملحد يوم الغفران."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I'd like to point out that we've had zero problem reaching each other's mouths."
"أود أن أشير إلى أننا لم نجد أي عناء في الوصول إلى أفواه بعضنا البعض."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"You’ve crafted this bored veneer, but you’re always giving yourself away in moments like that. In the moments that really matter."
"لقد صغت قناع الملل هذا، لكنك تفضح أمرك دوماً في لحظات كهذه. في اللحظات التي تهم حقاً."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Hot. I’ve been upgraded to hot. No one has ever called me hot. Cute? Yes. Adorable? yes, often and it makes me want to punch them. I didn’t know short girls could even be hot. I thought I’d been permanently relegated to elfin-pixie-child status."
"حارّة. لقد ترقّيتُ إلى حارّة. لم يصفني أحدٌ قطّ بأنني حارّة. لطيفة؟ نعم. فاتنة؟ نعم، وكثيرًا ما يجعلني ذلك أرغب في لكمهم. لم أكن أعلم أن الفتيات القصيرات يمكن أن يكنّ حارّات. ظننتُ أنني قد حُبستُ إلى الأبد في مرتبة الجنية الصغيرة الطفولية."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Do adults realize how lucky they are?"
"هل يدرك الكبار مدى حظهم؟"
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Crushes are so awful. I wonder if they suck worse for the crush-er or the crush-ee. I consider my three years of watching Josh from afar. Yeah, definitely the crush-er."
"التعلّقات العاطفية سيئة للغاية. أتساءل إن كانت أشد وطأة على المُعجَب أم على مَن يُعجَب به. أتأمل سنواتي الثلاث التي قضيتها أراقب جوش من بعيد. نعم، بالتأكيد على المُعجَب."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I don't care about anything. But I care about you."
"لا أبالي بشيء. لكنني أبالي بك."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. It's like everyone else has their entire future mapped out except for me."
"لا أعرف ماذا أريد أن أفعل، أو من أريد أن أكون، أو أين أريد أن أعيش. يبدو الأمر وكأن الجميع قد رسموا مستقبلهم بالكامل إلا أنا."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot."
"حسنًا، الأنوف الدامية. أحتضن معطفه بقوة أكبر. تلك بالتأكيد مثيرة."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Finally, I laugh. Genuine and normal sounding. And then my date says the best thing that he couldpossibly say: “It’s okay. I haven’t been on one of these [dates] in a while either.”My smile triples in size. Josh grins. “Just give me your hand.”“W–what?”“Your hand,” he repeats. “Give it to me.”I extend my shaking right hand. And – in a moment that is a hundred dreams come true – Joshua Wasserstein laces his fingers through mine. A staggering shock of energy shoots straight into myveins. Straight into my heart.“There,” he says. “I’ve been waiting a long time to do that."
"أخيرًا، أضحك. ضحكة حقيقية وطبيعية. ثم يقول رفيقي أفضل ما يمكن أن يقوله: "لا بأس. أنا أيضًا لم أخرج في موعد كهذا منذ فترة."
تتضاعف ابتسامتي ثلاث مرات.
يبتسم جوش ابتسامة عريضة. "فقط أعطيني يدك."
"مـ ماذا؟"
"يدك،" يكرر. "أعطني إياها."
أمد يدي اليمنى المرتجفة. وفي لحظة هي تحقيق لمئة حلم، يشبك جوشوا واسرشتاين أصابعه بأصابعي. صدمة هائلة من الطاقة تنطلق مباشرة في عروقي. مباشرة إلى قلبي.
"ها قد فعلت،" يقول. "لقد انتظرت طويلًا لأفعل ذلك."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"The way he looked at you? He wasn’t distracted. He was consumed."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I mean . . . I don't know. I don't know what I want to do, or who I want to be, or where I want to live. I don't know. I like reading about adventure, sure, but I also like doing it from the safety of home. But what is home, besides a quilt-covered bed? Where is it?"
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I laugh, and it sounds like I've been sucking helium."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"We're enveloped in pitch black. "Wait here," I whisper."Are you getting your ax"Handcuffs."Kinky. But, okay, I'll try it."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"Confidence, darling." He leans across the table and touches a finger to my cheek. "You could learn something from me, you know."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren’t the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn’t, because I couldn’t trust myself."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I don't know what I believe. I guess that makes me a Christmas Tree Agnostic."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it’s okay that my future is unknown. And maybe,” I say with another smile, “it’s okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"It gets worse. Josh tell her that he loves her. She says it back. He touches her. She touches him back. And then they're losing their virginity on the floor of her bedroom beside her pet rabbit, Isis. A rabbit. Josh literally lost his virginity in front of a metaphor for sex."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
"We can’t stop smiling at each other. I can’t believe that adults get to do this every day. And I don’t even mean sex, though it’s wonderful, but things like this. Brushing our teeth at the same sink. Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don’t want to ever forget."
Stephanie Perkins, Isla and the Happily Ever After
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