Sophie

“Tea without sugar just wasn’t done. Or at least not talked about in polite society. Like French kissing your first cousin.”
― Rachel Gibson, Just Kiss Me

“I'm your f-friend?” says the Winter Soldier, kind of perking up a little. Sam almost starts crying himself. It's like those videos on youtube of people rescuing fighting dogs who start out all skinny and mean and growly and end up all fat and happy and rolling around licking people. He just wants to be loved, man, it's not his fault that he's all scarred up and scary with a missing front leg and doggie anxiety, and do they make ThunderShirts for humans? Because Sam needs to buy a set in supersoldier sizes.”
― spitandvinegar

“He wanted to memorize every inch of her, every curve and angle, the strong length of her thigh and the delicate bones of her wrist, storing up memories against a bleak and empty tomorrow. But that wasn’t how love worked. Love wasn’t a sum safely invested in the five percents. One couldn’t prevent future sorrow by capitalizing on present bliss. All he could do was have this moment, wring all the joy out of it, and then somehow continue after it was over.”
― Cat Sebastian, Unmasked by the Marquess

“He knows that there are people on earth who aren't in love with Steve, but it always seems kind of questionable to him, like people who claim to never drink coffee or jerk off. It's in defiance of fucking nature, is what it is.”
― spitandvinegar, Ain't No Grave (Can Keep My Body Down)