andie z (amzreads)

“He calls it his office or his study and in my head I still call it the drawing room, because in a past life I was a duchess and I've never quite gotten over being reborn as a commoner in this age.”
― Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

“I will never leave him. It will be this, always, for as long as he will let me.
If I had had words to speak such a thing, I would have. But there were none that seemed big enough for it, to hold that swelling truth.
As if he had heard me, he reached for my hand. I did not need to look; his fingers were etched into my memory, slender and petal-veined, strong and quick and never wrong.
“Patroclus,” he said. He was always better with words than I.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles

“Is this just a polite way of saying you need time to recover from my flat?

I won't lie. It was fairly terrible. But there were some compensations.

Like what?

You.

I stared at the word for a really long time. Remember this is fake. Remember this is fake. Remember this is fake.”
― Alexis Hall, Boyfriend Material

“If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 1