Sam

“He leans toward me over the table, dark eyes earnest, stars traveling on his skin. “Do you know how incredible you are?” I cannot breathe. Temporarily. So I force myself to laugh. “Really? You’re wasting your question on this?” “I am serious. Do you realize how exceptional you are, Mallory?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“I’ve got you, Mallory. Nothing bad is goi bc to happen. You can let yourself want this, because you already have it. You have me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“Nolan stares like I’m the center of gravity of the room, like nothing else ever existed but me in all of space and time.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

“I don’t want to remove her walls because that’d destroy her strength, but I’d kill for more peeks into the other side.”
― Julie Olivia, If It Makes You Happy