Mate (Bride, #2)

by Ali Hazelwood

Maybe I’m afraid to be insubstantial, and that no part of me will be left once I’m gone.

Damn ouch

Her laughter adjusts the spin of his atoms.

😭 😭 😭 KOEN

In my ideal, remarkably unremarkable future that will never be, I’d go to a job I love, come home, make dinner for someone whose face was in my head and heart all day long, and spend the rest of the night watching boring TV shows with them.

Misery: You soft hearted bitch. I could never.

Lol love her

“I love it when you talk about me like I’m the ultimate escape room. Tell me more.”

Plzzz she’s so funny

“Everybody has cults. They’re the weeds of sentient civilization.

this cannot be anything but fated.

FATED!!!

“Oh, fuck off. It’s very sexist of you to assume that I couldn’t beat you up.”

Your honor i love him

He easily resigned himself to a lifetime without her, but… Simply put, he is unwilling to contemplate a universe in which she no longer exists.

🥹🥹🥹

There has to be a limit to how much we crave. Can’t approach infinity, or it’ll stretch us too thin.

When two people fall in love, how many nights do they spend together, doing absolutely nothing, before they’ve had their fill? How many silences and crosswords and mugs of tea do they share? What can Koen and I do, to get as many as—

This is so pure

“Serena.” I hear the blurry edge of his smile. A quiet sigh. “I would throw away my pack, my life, and my entire world for you. Which is the exact reason I cannot have you.”

This humor of yours, you get it from our side of the family.” “Actually, I get it from the need to proactively cope with a staggering amount of unprocessed trauma. Back to Fiona, please.”

Real as fuck

I observe him for a while, wondering whether it’s normal, feeling—feeling so much about a single person. Surely, it’s unfair. Surely, a love this deep should be reserved for the universe as a whole. But what if, to me, he’s the linchpin? What if he’s the stitch that keeps it all together?

I can’t with them. I’m obsessed

“While I’m widely known for my prankster personality and comedic timing, no. I’m not joking. Not about this.”