The Library of Borrowed Hearts

by Lucy Gilmore

We’re human beings, Chloe. Real live goddamned human beings. Not just some side characters who disappear the second they decide to turn the page.”

“I’m sorry if that’s not what you want to hear, but you were the whole story as far as I was concerned,” he said. “The beginning, the middle, and the end. I didn’t need to open another romance when I already had the perfect one written down.”

What’s the point of living if all you’re going to do is make everyone around you miserable? What are we put on this earth for if not to make life better for those we leave behind?’”