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"Who needed caffeine when you had a half-naked Jaxon Hayes to hug you from behind? Fuck Folgers. I would take this every morning from here on out."

"It was hard not to get turned on when Maci challenged me. She never hesitated to call me out, which was something I wasn’t used to unless it was coming from one of the guys. Sure, broads had called me names, screamed in my face, and even threatened to run me over with their car. But when words left Maci’s mouth, they held a different meaning."

"All the time I spent away from him made it clear how much I depended on him to show up for me. I needed him in a way that scared me and overwhelmed me with the fear of losing him."

"I wasn’t sure how to be anything other than a one-night-stand kind of guy. I had worked through so many girls that I had no idea what number I was even on. I didn’t even know if I could be loyal to just one person for an extended period of time. But I knew if there was one girl I would try it for, it was the one I had thought about every single day since she sat next to me in class."

"'I believe that by pretending our history doesn't exist, we're asking for it to be repeated. No one, government officials or otherwise, should have that power.'"

"When I ran my gaze over him this time, I saw so much more. Someone who could pull me back when I was about to spiral, someone who didn't care that my mental health was less than average on a good day. A man who embraced my imperfections and helped me when I needed it. I wanted to give him everything. I wanted to let him fill every empty space in my being. But I just... couldn't. Even when he said things like that. How could I give him such a broken gift?
'Thank you,' I whispered."

"Koa's jaw ticked, and I tried to stop laughing at my brother's jealousy but failed... Sienna raised her hand as Koa moved toward her. 'Do you know how many people have let me know they've fucked you since seeing us together? There are at least fifty people coming to me as a woman in my DMs right now. Please calm down.'"

"We were friends before, nothing more, nothing less. But since then, we've become closer in baby steps, from only speaking during parties, to trading the occasional meme, to hanging out intentionally, to confiding in each other. I thought we were both clear on that night. It was her birthday, and I was available. But now she likes it when I call her Wildflower. And I kind of want to keep calling her that."

"I'm once again floored at the man sitting in front of me. When I'm too tired, he reads me the menu. When I have to work, he has no qualms entertaining himself. When he knows I'll be hungry, he brings snacks. And he draws a version of me that's so obviously me, yet so much more beautiful than I am in real life. He sees the version of me I've always wanted to be."

“No one should ever feel shame over the pain others inflict on them. The person who did this… they were small. They needed to see pain in others to ease their own. That is never acceptable. Never the answer… Don’t cry, Princess… The ones who cause us the most pain are rarely ever worth our tears.”

"'...I look at you and my world disappears into nothing but the damning echo of your heartbeat—how it calls to me even in a dreamless sleep... You say you can't say no to me. I can't hear no from you.'"

"'You literally just told me that you’d ruin the author's work to be with me. While I appreciate the book boyfriend energy, this isn’t a dark romance, James. It’s a cosy Regency drama where they fall in love after pretending to be together in a fake relationship.' 
'Then, pretend to be with me. If that’s what it takes to get us out of this nightmare, I’ll take it.'” 

“‘Dream or not,’ her voice pulls my attention from the phone, ‘he’s real and wants to see you. What’s the worst that could happen? He murders you? You could always go to his place and send me the location. If I don’t hear from you in a few hours, I’ll send the police. If he comes by your place, you don’t have an exit. He may eat your face off if he’s a cannibal.’
It’s not the worst idea going to him. ‘At least I wouldn’t have to clean my flat.’
‘Attagirl! There’s the spirit!’” 

“‘Anna, this is all make believe; a fantasy. When we wake up, I need to be sure you’re still in our world. Story be damned… It may be a dream, but I can’t lose you.’ ... We may not be real, but I refuse to believe this is the end. She’s mine.” 

"If I’m not with her, I want to be with her. When I am with her, I cannae stop touching her. It’s like my body craves her with a need I’ve never felt in my life before."

"Even if what Callum said wasn’t true, it still hurts. None of this was just a way to pass the time. I didn’t mean to fall in love with this place. Or him. But it happened anyway."

"Scotland has woven her way into my soul and is a part of me. It was always a part of me; I just didn’t know it."

"Cash and Troy are both wrapped up with Piper and Angie. They are so loved up that sometimes it’s hard to watch. Especially when I wish I had that... Troy drops a kiss on [Angie's] cheek, causing her to blush. God, I wish I had that. I ignore the first face that pops into my mind, because I can’t have it with her. Bexley is so far out of my league, it’s not even funny."

"This is easy. Sitting here and talking with her about anything and everything... Why can’t it always be like this? There’s no front either of us are putting on. It’s only us. What you see is what you get. Maybe this is why it’s so hard for us? People expect us to be entirely different people than who we really are... I want Bex to be someone I can count on. I want to tell her all that, but I’ve already spewed enough on her tonight."

"'Sometimes strength isn’t always depicted in muscles, steely words, and inerrant resolves. Sometimes it shows itself within the softer corners of you—the way you weaken with other people’s pain or sit and laugh with the beautifully broken. The way you show up each time the world knocks you down or by the way you feel so deeply for people who you hurt when they do. That is strength. You’re one of the strongest people I know, Sayah. And I have known a lot of people.'"

"She is the quiet to my loud. Her presence hushes my demons and calms them. The ravine doesn’t seem so scary with her close to me. It’s knowing what that abyss means is what opens another chasm of terror. If I’m in it, that means she is not, and to live in a world where she doesn’t exist combines those two abysmal things. If I’m in that darkness, it means her death."

 "'We all cling to something. Revenge. Compassion. Hope. Family. We need to. How else do we make it through days like this? ... What do you cling to, Henrik?' ... Henrik clung to his desperate need to keep others at arm’s length. To never be hurt by loss again... 'Sometimes we cling to the wrong things.'”

“If Henrik decided to join her now, it would be because he wanted to be by her side in everything. He wanted to be what she needed. To have her back while she led the charge. To bolster her while she fought for her family unhindered... ‘I’ll conquer the impossible to have that with you. I mean it. I will wear myself down to the bones if it means having a life with you.’”

"'Don’t go. Hurt me like I hurt you... Because as long as you stay here to fight with me, I’ll still have you... Because, you have me. All of me. You always did. Always will.'”

“'I can’t lose you… I mean, use you.’
My heart nearly leaps out of my chest at her admission. ‘Then don’t. Let me love you the way I should have when we were younger. We can create a ridiculous list of things you want to do, in and out of bed, before I leave. But even when I do have to go’—I tuck her wind-swept hair behind her ear—‘I’m always going to be yours.’”

"'... we both know it’s supposed to be you and me in the end. I love you, Ingrid. I always will.'
It hurts to hear, but he’s wrong. It wouldn’t take fifteen years, I fell in love with him in a single week. And now he’s gone."