The First Cut Quotes

“ Dear Ava,

I know you hate this sort of thing, so I'll be brief. Today is not your favorite day. It's cursed apparently, for good reason. But if you let me, I promise to change that. I'll make every day your favorite day. You'll be my favorite person, and I'll be yours (if you'll have me). I've told you a hundred times I love you, and I'd wait forever for you to say it back. Don't make me. Please say you feel the same.

But tell me tomorrow, since anything that starts today is doomed.

Yours,

Luke”
― Ellery A. Kane, The First Cut

“I'm glad you're having one too," I say. "At least I can be sure your mom didn't poison it. She must really hate me. Especially now."

Luke rolls his eyes and groans at me. "She doesn't hate you. But she is disappointed you weren't honest with her. With us." I watch the way he holds the knife, careful and steady. It glides through the icing, then through the cake's flesh, with ease. "hey, she's mad at me too, if it helps."

He plops the blood-red cake at the center of the plate and slides it to me. Maybe red velvet wasn't the best choice.

"Great. So what you're saying is she poisoned both of us?”
― Ellery A. Kane, The First Cut

“Ava rolled onto her side to get a better view of Luke. He stood at the dresser, his back to her, his lower half wrapped in a towel. The only light came from the cracked bathroom door, a thin spotlight splitting his shoulder blades.

"I'm watching you," she teased.

She couldn't see his face, but she could picture it breaking into a lazy grin. Luke smiled a lot. And she like making him smile. could it really be that easy--that simple and straightforward, just as he'd promised her?

"In that case, let me give you something to look at." The towel dropped to his feet, pooling without a sound.”
― Ellery A. Kane, The First Cut