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“She’s not you.”

“What?”

“She. Isn’t. You.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“Enemies-to-lovers—it’s our trope, Buxbaum.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“You look best when you're you.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“And in the dead silence of the night, Pip whispered, “Who’s taking the picture?”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“In the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending you don't like me, and I can pretend that I don't care. But for tonight, let me pretend you're mine.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“Glad to know you're thinking about me when you kiss your husband.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“I do not want you dead, and I’ll kill anyone who tries.”
― Stephanie Garber, The Ballad of Never After

“You ask a lot of questions."
"Only because you do a lot of questionable things.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love

“Stop flashing your fangs. I’m the only one who gets to bite her.”
― Stephanie Garber, Once Upon a Broken Heart

“Don’t you ever apologize for being what you are.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Nothing hurts you unless you let it.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In

“Home isn't a place. Home is the people who love you. Forever and ever, no matter what.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Bad Blood

“I guess my point is that I do believe in love. Really. I'm just not convinced that kind of love could ever happen to me.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“You're so weird sometimes," he says, and it somehow sounds more affectionate than I love you.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“I hope you remember to miss me when all this is over”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“And this, I think, is my ultimate fatal flaw. Missing people who don’t miss me back.”
― Ann Liang, This Time It's Real

“Why is it me? Why do you always single me out?"

"Because," he says quietly. "You're the only person worth paying attention to.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“For ten years I thought I was preparing to destroy you, when really I was preparing to love you.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“He pauses, leans closer to inspect the displays. Reaches out, as if to grab something, then retracts his hand. And starts walking all over again."

After ten minutes of this, I lose my patience. "Are you here to select bread, or a future wife? What's taking so long?"

HIs smile is sharp, taunting. "The latter.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“You have to understand...If you knew the effect you had on me, how often I think about you, the things I would do for you...I wouldn't stand a chance against you ever again. You would have taken everything from me," he goes on in a rush, like the words are burning him from within, like he has to get it out before the pain becomes overwhelming. "Not just a debating championship or some points for a test or a fancy award or a spot in a competition—but my whole heart. My pride. God, my sanity. It would all be over. You would annihilate me.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“Of course, if you...if you don't want to," he says into the silence, sliding his gaze away from me, "I can accept that. I won't bring it up again. I know I'm not....I know what I'm like. That I'm infuriating. And selfish. And cruel. I know I'm not perfect the way my brother is, and I manage to disappoint my parents every time. It's okay if you don't choose me, really—I never expected to be the first choice. I wouldn't blame you‚—"

"I do choose you."

He doesn't seem to hear me at first. He's still talking, rambling really, the words flowing out like rainwater. "I can't always say pretty things, and sometimes I tease you when really I just want you to look my way, and—wait." He stops. Even his breath freezes in his throat. "What...did you just say? Say it again."

"I choose you," I say quietly, glad for the shadows concealing my flushed cheeks. For the support of the wall behind me.
"You will always be my first choice, Julius Gong.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“I think you're obsessed with me, Sadie Wen.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“Because I know without a doubt that as long as I tell Julius Gong where I am, he’ll say, Stay there, I’ll come find you, and he will find me, in any crowd, any room, any city.
He always has.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Finds You

“And isn’t it strange, I find myself marveling, how the safest I’ve ever felt is beside the boy I once considered the bane of my existence.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Finds You

“The people who loved you, the ones who really cared, they would always come back. Sometimes, they even came back from the dead.”
― Holly Jackson, The Reappearance of Rachel Price

“But sometimes my mouth starts saying words without checking with my brain first.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“I think we all get to decide what good and bad and right and wrong mean to us, not what we’re told to accept.”
― Holly Jackson, Good Girl, Bad Blood

“Hey Sarge, remember me?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“You're my person. My little one. My Sarge. And I'm supposed to protect you.”
― Holly Jackson, As Good as Dead