matsboyd: books read in 2017: ‘when the moon was ours’ by anna-marie mclemore “I

matsboyd:

books read in 2017: ‘when the moon was ours’ by anna-marie mclemore

“I love you. I’ve always loved you. You know that, right?”

She meant it however he wanted to take it. That she loved him as the boy who’d first been willing to come near her. That she loved him as her best friend. That she loved him in a way that made her glow with the memory of every moon he’d ever painted and every time he’d spread his hands over her back.