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“I see only reminders that nothing lasts forever, not even greatness.”
“Some things last.”
I faced him. “Really? And just what would that be?”
“The things that matter.”
― Mary E. Pearson, The Kiss of Deception

“Love is a lot like water.
It can be calm. Raging. Threatening. Soothing.
Water will be many things, but even in all its forms, it will always be water.
You are my water.
I think I might be yours, too.”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“People sometimes still drown in the shallow end,”
― Colleen Hoover, Heart Bones

“When I reached her, she was a star, pulling me into her orbit”
― Bryn Greenwood, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

“She looked so much like an angel, sometimes I wanted to run a hand over her bare back just to make sure she didn’t have wings.”
― L.J. Shen, Playing with Fire

“Mal had told me I could kill him. He didn't know that in a way. he'd kill me, too.
everyday I lived without him slugged by like a snail, leaving a trail of slimy goo in its wake.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“a completely unhinged, typhon-souled, damaged Romeo wo would break your bed, heart, and resolve if you let him.
not maliciously, no. And not because he wants to. He simply cannot help himself. H e would wreck everything in his way. This misunderstood, beautiful, brilliant boy who is burdened with gifts he never asked for, but unwrapped nonetheless. His talent, charm, and beauty are a weapon, and right now they're aimed at me”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Just because you don't like the fact that you are going to sleep with me doesn't mean it's not going to happen. And just because we've only met doesn't mean we're strangers.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“he feels like he's never left my side. Like I carried a tiny part of him with me from the moment I was born, and now that he's here, we can fit the part I kept with the rest of him, like finishing a puzzle.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“You burn under my fingertips, Rory. How do I give you up?”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“don't be with Kathleen. She doesn't kill you."

"I won't. Don't be with a stupid, shiny guy with boiled balls. You were born for greatness, Princess.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“I felt a lot like a condom —like I was the only thing separating them from one another. it wasn't really me he was sleeping with. It was her. And she, she imagined him, too.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“She loves me, and I love...
I love chocolate bars. Love is like that, don't you feel? deadly, kind of. The more you prolong and stretch it like a leather leash, the more painful when it finally snaps and hits you.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“Want to know if you love someone? Watch them suffer and see how much it tears you apart. Because when you were down, when you were hurt, Rory, every fiber of me burned right along with you.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“You leaving without listening to what I have to say simply solidifies my suspicion all along: Your skin is not the only thing cold about you. Your heart is frozen, too. I loved you from the start.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“..You said you didn't believe in kismet when we first met. I forgot to mention—neither do I...”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“it was never fate. It was never luck. I demanded to have you at my disposal Aurora Belle Jenkins. You were a part of a package deal. it's not fate. it's us. From the start to finish. Twisted, screwed, obsessed, destructive, wonderful us.”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“with you, I chased harder”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“you know something, Mally-boy? I think one day you'll be my son-in-law."

"I am not going to marry Kiki"

"No, Not Kathleen. i am talking about Aurora."

"i don't even know her."

"Not yet."

"She lives in America."

"Love is bigger than this planet, son. Much, much bigger”
― L.J. Shen, In the Unlikely Event

“I’d feel nothing if you punched me in the heart I’d feel even less if you stabbed me with a knife But I didn’t fall out of love with you I fell out of love with life”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“Sometimes, when I look at Layla, I wish she were Willow.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“I ate a strand of Layla’s hair this morning.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“Are we some kind of broken?”
― Kristen Callihan, Dear Enemy

“There was more than one type of perfectionist. And that I qualified because the kind of perfectionist I was, was the kind that abandoned everything if I wasn’t good enough at it. And that’s why I couldn’t finish tasks.”
― Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

“Words don’t get written from a heart that’s never felt. They come from pain, from love, from unspeakable depths”
― Kandi Steiner, A Love Letter to Whiskey

“And this last year I also realized there are different kinds of love. There’s the dreamy kind you always thought you wanted and then there’s the steady one you never understood but the second you let yourself feel it…it’s nothing like you could have imagined in your wildest dreams.”
― K.L. Kreig, Black Swan Affair

“While he was the sun that lit your world, you were the darkness that shadowed mine.”
― K.L. Kreig, Black Swan Affair

“You’re too hard on yourself,’she said. ‘You can do long-term love. You’ve done it better than anyone I know.’
‘How? My longest relationship was two years and that was over when I was twenty-four.’
‘I’m talking about you and me, ’she said”
― Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir

“You could have made me come home," I say.
"No, I can only try to be the person you want to come home to.”
― Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty

“Do you remember who you were? We’ve both changed, but the difference is that I didn’t know who I wanted to become, and you did, that was clear, and so I knew I needed to stay out of your way and just let you become the version of yourself you wanted to be, which I knew was, at its core, good. I knew you wanted to be good.” “How did you know that, and I didn’t?” “I can see you,” he says.”
― Chloé Cooper Jones, Easy Beauty