Fever (Songbird, #1)

by Melissa Pearl

“Can I get you anything? What do you want most when you feel this way?” “My mom.”

“I hate that I'm like this, but God just forgot to give me a compass when I was born.”

“Yeah, what makes you happy? Like, really happy. You know, like when your heart just wants to burst out of your chest and fly through the sky.”

Nothing in my life made my heart want to fly right out of my chest...but

“You know, I kind of feel like it doesn't even matter what my job is. I know it's important to love your work and stuff, but to me, the most important thing is the end of my day. I want to come from whatever I'm doing and walk into a house that's full of love and laughter. I want to be with someone I can sing and dance with, someone who'll make me laugh and love me no matter how crazy I am.”

“Life isn't always roses and cupcakes,” she whispered, reaching for my hand. “But my hope for you is that you'll meet your Prince Charming, and he'll dance you into the sunset and give you your happily ever after.”

Life wasn't always roses and cupcakes; sometimes it was arsenic and manure.

of the most romantic songs I know.” There was no way on earth I'd sing it to these guys, but I knew the lyrics by heart. “I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more, just to be the man who walked a 1000 miles to fall down at your door?” I glanced around the table. The only one with a gleam in his eye was Cole, and it encouraged me to finish my argument. “How can you not love that? If a guy ever sang that to me, I'd be putty in his hands.”

I wanted it. I wanted to fall in love and build my dream with someone.

“Life has a way of working out, Cole. God's not into torturing people.”

sometimes we have to wade through the muck to reach higher ground. You promised me that I would find

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my way.”

Part 2

“Good things come to those who wait, right?” I rolled my eyes. “Well, and to those who fight for it.”

“Cole, you have to trust that if she's meant to be yours, she will be...and if there's someone better for you out there, then your feelings for Ella will fade.“

“If she's meant to be yours, she'll come back to you.”