LebyTheBooknerd

“He plucked the book from my hands, inspected the cover. “I recognize this one. Haven’t you read this, like, a hundred times?”
“Twenty, actually,” I said, snatching it back. “Today marks the twenty-first time.”
He grinned. Shook his head.
“What?” I asked.
“Nothing. Nothing at all,” he said, jerking his chin toward the book on my legs.
“Read to me.”
"Why?”
“Because you go somewhere else when you read. I want to go there with you.”

We sat there and I read aloud, my back to Brett’s chest. He pulled me a little closer, held me a little tighter. And this time, we escaped together.”
― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling

“Don't worry about it. I'd have dumped me too if I was on a romantic date with that!”
― Leigh Fallon, Carrier of the Mark

“he is so lonely that he sometimes feels it physically, a sodden clump of dirty laundry pressing against his chest. he cannot unlearn the feeling.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“It feels like the world is going to explode when I kiss you,” I whispered.
“Then let it explode,” she said.”
― Alex Light, The Upside of Falling