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Bloom Bloom by Elizabeth Scott
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“I love books. I like that the moment you open one and sink into it you can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting that yours will ever be.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“Look at me. We aren´t them lauren. You´re not your mother or father any more than I´m my mother. You´re you and I´m me and I love you.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“You ready?" Evan asks, and he's looking at me, and I love his hair, I love his smile, I lo--"I Love You," I say, and as I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine.

I don't want that. I don't want to be like that. I don' want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever. ”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. Being happy makes you want to talk, to go over everything, to share it so you can remember it all over again.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“I love the me I am with him. I’m the girl who has Dave. I’m Lauren, Dave’s girlfriend. I’m someone better than Lauren Smith, who no one noticed till Dave came along. The thing is, that girl isn’t me and I know it. But when I’m with him, I feel like I could be her. That if something in me was just–I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“Sometimes being me is very confusing.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“I love you,' I say, and I watch his smile bloom I finally get how great those three little words are. I finally get what they really mean.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“School is just like having a job. You have to show up, you have to do your work, and you have to be around tons of idiots or mean people. Now that I think about it, it's worse than having a job. At least there you get paid.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“I don’t know, shifted a little or something, smoothed down–people would think of me the way they think of Dave, and everything would always be perfect. I would be perfect.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom
“I love books. I love that moment when you open one and sink into it. You can escape from the world, into a story that's way more interesting than yours will ever be.”
Elizabeth Scott, Bloom