I could hear the excitement in Dad’s voice, but I needed another minute. My brain was so numb it wasn’t sending any signals to the rest of my body. Everything I’d been storing in my head until a few hours ago was gone. This could be how it started. Or maybe this happened to everyone. What was the Franco-Prussian War about? Did I care any more? Could I remember how to spell Württemberg? Unlikely. We would avoid the topic until we both grew so resentful that we’d shout terrible things at each other across the living room. A slow-burn summer romance narrated by a beautifully snarky heroine who likes to pretend that she doesn’t have a heart of gold. This book was made for those endless-feeling summer nights.”— Aminah Mae Safi, author of Not the Girls You're Looking For and Tell Me How You Really Feel Hannah – when we were friends and before we were more than friends – used to complain about girls like that, the ones who wanted to use me to see what it was like, and to be honest there was a time when I would have agreed with her. Like when I was fourteen and Gracie Belle Corban said she only did it because she wanted to be able to tell Oliver Quinn that she'd kissed a girl. I cried to Hannah for a week about that. But now, well, I have different priorities. As long as we both get what we want, no strings, just good old-fashioned girl-on-girl kissing, then what's the problem? I still draw the line at girls who want to do it to make their boyfriends horny. But a girl who wants to satisfy her curiosity? I am all over that. Literally.

Subverted in The Break-Up, which opens with a Meet Cute, followed by one of these to You're My Best Friend, followed immediately by...well, you can figure this one out on your own. The song "Strangers Like Me" from Tarzan is a combination montage of him falling deeper in love with Jane and learning about humanity. Like several other montage types, this is deconstructed for horror effect in Doctor Who, "Forest of the Dead", in which we see Donna undergo a Falling-in-Love Montage only to find out that it actually happened that fast, taking place in a virtual reality world which relies on the human brain mentally filling in the extra time to avoid confronting the constant disorientation.I registered an English accent then. I couldn’t place it but I knew it wasn’t super posh and it wasn’t Northern. That was all my English accent knowledge depleted.

A meet-cute in the style of Jenny Han, and just as sweet and cinematic as YA rom-com fans will expect." — Booklist Unbothered by Saoirse’s no-relationships rulebook, Ruby proposes a loophole: They don’t need true love to have one summer of fun, complete with every cliché, rom-com montage-worthy date they can dream up—and a binding agreement to end their romance come fall. It would be the perfect plan, if they weren’t forgetting one thing about the Falling in Love Montage: when it’s over, the characters actually fall in love… for real. Forever: The series begins with a montage of how Oscar and June met, fell in love, got married, and fell into a rut. Funny, sexy and smart, The Falling in Love Montage is the romcom to beat all romcoms. I loved it -- Cat ClarkeSo, what, you're going to spend the rest of the year alone? Sitting in an empty classroom playing on your phone?"