Valentine's Day #3 Quotes

“Why do you care?"
Because you deserve better.
Because I think about you all the time.
Because the thought of you saying those words to him makes something inside me hurt.”
― Lynn Painter, Valentine's Day #3

“I don't have your present with me," he said, and it irked me that he wasn't being nice about it. At all. Because even though she was kind of acting bonkers at the moment, she was still Emilie.

Emilie read books for fun, asked for extra credit, texted her grandma during Chemistry,
and cackled like a child when her friends pummeled her with snowballs in the parking lot (I'd been parked one row over the previous week when they'd waged war).
She hummed to the Taylor in her Air Pods while reading before the bell, for the love of
God. She was ... all of that, yet he looked like he wished she'd disappear.
Such an idiot.”
― Lynn Painter, Valentine's Day #3