Happy Place

by Emily Henry

When he goes to Montana to visit his family, he comes back with a stack of ten-cent Goodwill paperbacks for me: She’ll Be Dying Around the Mountain, Purple Mountain Tragedy, Big Rock Candy Murder, and Cowboy Stake Me Away, the last of which is actually about vampires and was misshelved.

In. Love. I need this.

I lost the best man I knew, and it was like I stopped knowing how to exist. Like the world didn’t make any sense anymore.

Want is a kind of thief. It’s a door in your heart, and once you know it’s there, you’ll spend your life longing for whatever’s behind it.

To have loved someone so much that the taste of maple syrup can make you cry and laugh at the same time.