“Arrogant. Show-off. In love with himself. Takes more time getting ready than most women. Gets in a lot of fights on the ice.” Loves his niece. Softer than he lets people know. Makes me feel good in more ways than one.
“I’ve been waiting for you to come home for eleven years. I’ll go anywhere you go.”
― Love and Other Words
― Love and Other Words
“Does he make you see stars?’ he asks in a low voice. ‘Does he call you his north star? Because that’s what you are to me. You’re the reason I made it home.”
― Come Back to Me
― Come Back to Me
“How else would you get to live a thousand lives in the span of only one? The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.”
― The Right Move
― The Right Move
“But most of us are too scared to even ask what we want, in case we can't have it.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
“I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn you cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you.”
― Better Than the Movies
― Better Than the Movies
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