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“I rather like it when you take charge.”
“You do?”
“Of course; just as long as you only do it when I let you”
― Andrea Smith, Maybe Baby

“Leah: 'How do I get him to come home?'

Sam: 'Get a new personality and learn to shut the fuck up.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Dirty Red

“In a sense I’m so far gone, I don‘t know what to say,” I begin. “I love you so much, and there are so many things that I didn’t get to tell you. I was so scared of the way that you loved me, Caleb.” I swipe at a tear that is leaking from my eye and continue.
“You changed everything. I was so frightened of losing you that I did everything in my power to drive you away. I thought that if I didn’t, eventually you would see that
you were wasting your time with me and leave anyway. I miss you. No, not just miss
you, my heart aches every day because you’re not there. I am so sorry for what I did. All of it. Please, please don’t forget me, because the possibility of that hurts more than anything else.”
― Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist

“Courage, Alexan­der,” she whis­pered.
“Courage, Ta­tiana.”
― Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman