Romancing the Reader

“What if you don't like my music?" I ask. "Will you still let me kiss you?"

She smiles gently.

"Does the song mean something to you?"

"I wrote it using pieces of my soul."

"Then you have nothing to worry about," she says quietly.”
― Colleen Hoover, Layla

“I love you, Daria Followhill, and I think you love me, too. In fact, I think we fell at the same time. You, like rain, in drizzles, over the weeks. Me, like the fucking sky above my head, all at once, crashing without the faintest chance of stopping.”
― L.J. Shen, Pretty Reckless

“Attraction isn’t something that only happens once, with one person. It’s part of what drives humans. Our attraction to each other, to art, to food, to entertainment. Attraction is fun. So when you decide to commit to someone, you aren’t saying, ‘I promise I’ll never be attracted to anyone else.’ You’re saying, ‘I promise to commit to you, despite my potential future attraction to other people.”
― Colleen Hoover, Regretting You

“There's always something in a first kiss. The first hint if you fit together. The initial inkling whether his style of kissing is one that makes your stomach flutter, your core ache and causes your hands to fist his shirt. That immediate knowledge that you want to do this again or that you need to walk away and never look back.”
― K. Bromberg, Hard to Hold