ganseyings:

all the books i’ve loved before  → lola and the boy next door by stephanie perkins

once upon a time, there was a girl who talked to the moon. and she was mysterious and she was perfect, in that way that girls who talk to moons are. in the house next door, there lived a boy. and the boy watched the girl grow more and more perfect, more and more beautiful with each passing year. he watched her watch the moon. and he began to wonder if the moon would help him unravel the mystery of the beautiful girl. so the boy looked into the sky. but he couldn’t concentrate on the moon. he was too distracted by the stars. and it didn’t matter how many songs or poems had already been written about them, because whenever he thought about the girl, the stars shone brighter. as if she were the one keeping them illuminated.