Meredith

“But there are only so many times you can handle heartbreak with someone before you have to start protecting yourself.”
― Molly McAdams, From Ashes

“I want to introduce myself to every freckle on your body.”
― Wendy Higgins

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay