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“Ask me what else I remember."
She started to run away, but his hand touched her arm.
"Ask me," he commanded.
Emma shook her head feeling both terrified and the most alive she'd felt in years.
He waited patiently until her eyes met his. "I remember us, Emma.”
― Lauren Layne, The Trouble with Love

“You want to know what I remember," he said quietly, his fingers fiddling with his cuffs as he rolled the sleeves up to his elbow, his eyes locked on the view before them.
She nodded.
He shoved his hands into his pockets and dipped his head just slightly, glancing at the floor before lifting it and staring out at the night sky.
"I remember everything.”
― Lauren Layne, The Trouble with Love

“There's nothing rational about love.”
― Lauren Layne, The Trouble with Love

“Despite how hard we tried to fight it, all of those things happened between us because our feelings for each other are becoming so much stronger than our desire. Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possesses is attraction. It’s not so easy when you’re trying to win a war against the heart.”
― Colleen Hoover, Maybe Someday

“I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Blue,” he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey.

She said, “I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Blue Lily, Lily Blue

“In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of her bare calves far more tantalizing than the thirteen cubic feet of bare skin Orla sported. But in this universe, that was Adam’s job.
He was in a terrible mood.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Dream Thieves

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.”
― Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places

“I could love you one day, Zach,” I whisper against his mouth. “I think it’s too late for me, Delia.”
― Teagan Hunter, Let's Get Textual

“It’s because I fell in love with this incredible girl my freshman year. Only I didn’t know how to be in love, so I did the only thing I could to keep her close. I became her friend. I became her best friend, and buried all of my own feelings so deep that I didn’t even recognize them, because her feelings were all that mattered, and she wanted this other guy.”
― lauren Layne, Blurred Lines

“Michael, listen. I get it. Nobody’s ever loved you first. You’re tired of being second choice. Or nobody’s choice. I get it. Because nobody ever loved me first, either. But I’ve been thinking about this, and Michael…I don’t think it’s about who loves you first. It’s about who loves you best. And that’s me.”
… “I love you best. More than I love anyone. More than you’ve ever been loved.”
― Lauren Layne, Crushed

“Just that I figure at some point, some guy must have been able to make you smile. And I always wondered if it was the same guy that made you stop.”
― Lauren Layne, The Trouble with Love

“I love you, and it's not the kind of love that wavers. It's the scary kind that doesn't fade. I look at you, and I see not just everything I want for my life, but everything I am, because you took the emptiest, dark pits of my soul and filled them with you. You are as much part of me as my own heart, and it doesn't beat without you.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Eyes Turned Skyward

“A dragon without its rider is a tragedy.
A rider without their dragon is dead.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“I know when you look at me, you see everything that went wrong, but when I look at you?” He licks his lips. “Violet, when I look at you, I still see the love of my life.”
― N.S. Perkins, The Infinity Between Us

“Marrying you was the best mistake I ever made. It ruined me for the rest of my life, but it also made me see I had a life to begin with. You made a man who hadn’t laughed in years start to dream again.”
― N. S. Perkins

“Marrying you was the best mistake I ever made. It ruined me for the rest of my life, but it also made me see I had a life to begin with. You made a man who hadn’t laughed in years start to dream again.”
― N.S. Perkins, Where Happiness Begins

“You can know someone without knowing all their struggles.”
― N.S. Perkins, Where Happiness Begins

“I know so many people walked away from you in your life, and I promise I won’t be one of them. You’re my one love.”
― N.S. Perkins, Where Happiness Begins

“You light up the fucking world, Lilianne. Even if I was just a blip in your path, I’d be fine with it, so long as you never dimmed.”
― N.S. Perkins, Where Happiness Begins

“None of the money and the fame, the shows and the parties, could’ve compared to how it felt to lie on the couch with you, watching you watch a movie, seeing all sorts of expressions move your beautiful face.”
― N.S. Perkins, Where Happiness Begins

“Honey, you’re impossible not to love.”
― N.S. Perkins, Where Happiness Begins

“He treats you well?” “Mom, he walked into hell and dragged me back out.”
― Cara Bastone, Promise Me Sunshine