Bella Matthews

Spilling your coffee is the adult equivalent to losing your balloon as a child.

Don’t judge my tears.

—Bellamy’s Secret Thoughts

“Look. It stopped raining, and there’s a rainbow . . . It’s beautiful.”

“Yeah . . . it is.” She’ll never know I was looking at her, not the ocean.

I like to be able to actually check things off my list. I get off on it. Metaphorically speaking, of course. I’ve even been known to add things to my list after they’re done, just for the quick hit of dopamine I get from crossing that bitch off.

Thousands of people will come in and out of your life and mean nothing.

But it’s the one you never saw coming who changes everything.

—Bellamy’s Secret Thoughts

One day you’re going to meet the reason you never settled, and it will all make sense.

—Bellamy’s Secret Thoughts

I’m not sure I’ve ever dated anyone who’s willing to take ownership when he’s wrong.

Guess that’s the difference between dating boys and dating a man.

I’m going through the motions, but I’m not sure what the endgame is.