Juniper

“My beautiful Locke," he said, his fingertips only just brushing the bruise... "Does it hurt?”
― V. L. Bovalino, The Second Death of Locke

“Mummy sighs. "We grew up, Dad," she says. "We grew up.”
― E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

“You don't have to forsake love," -Lao Ge”
― F.C. Yee, The Rise of Kyoshi

“There are two different types of people in the world. There is the type of person who, when faced with this predicament, takes down the number but never calls, already assuming the answer is no. And there is the type of person who takes down the number and calls anyway, hoping for a miracle. Sometimes those people end up in the same place. Sometimes the person who calls ends up ahead.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, After I Do