Bastiano Romano (The Five Syndicates, #3)

by Parker S. Huntington

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with. —Fannie Flagg

She laughs out loud without hesitating, speaks what she feels in her heart, and only thinks with good intentions. People who have lost those things don’t realize their value until they’re gone. People like us. It’s up to us to protect those who haven’t lost them, because only we know.”

want to be used and devoured, kept near at all times, read over and over again until everything that’s in me is memorized and consumed, the pages are bent and worn with memories, and the marks he left on me can’t be erased.

You can’t give yourself to someone else before you know what you’re giving away.”