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“Scarlett.” His fingers come up to my chin. Grab it gently, but tight. “The only time wasted is time we are apart.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“If you don’t think that I’m very aware of your presence, always, you have no idea what’s going on.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“It takes him a while to answer. When he does, he’s not looking at me. “Because sometimes I can’t breathe when you’re around.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“Stay home for long weekends and have morally bankrupt amounts of sex with someone I’m in love with. Kinky, vanilla, I want it all. I want to adopt rescue animals with her. I want to take care of her, and watch her be cold in Sweden, and marvel every day at how much smarter than me she is, and . . . Scarlett.” His thumb swipes under my eye. “Why are you crying?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“Scarlett. I can’t be without you. And for the first time in my life, I don’t care. I think of you all the time, and I want to make plans with you, I want to talk about the future, and I’m fucking happy about it—”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“It has to be love. It’s expansive and all-consuming and full and joyous. Hungry. Thick. At once heavy and light. Everywhere and golden. It’s him and me and the myriad of little strings that tangle us together.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“But I saw you, and you made sense to me.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“You know," he says against my lips, "I wanted to be righteously angry at you. I told myself I wouldn't be with you until you were ready to be honest." I don't ask about what. That would be supremely dishonest. "But I'm just so fucking happy to see you, Scarlett. I can't be mad at you, when every time I think about you, I am reminded that you exist.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“You and I have an agreement, don't we? And that agreement says that until you say stop, I can do what I want with you. Even if it breaks you into pieces. Even if it makes you cry."

I nod.

"I love that you opened up to me," he says, pressing his mouth into the side of my head. I feel his inhale, and something sweet and thick drips inside me, warms me in my very core. "But they're sides of the same coin. I get to take you apart and split you open - but if anything else, anyone else makes you feel sad, upset, cracked, I also get to be the one who puts you back together. Until you say stop. You get it?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“You don’t have to be afraid or embarrassed. No one does you better than you. You can’t be replaced. Not everyone will see that, but only you need to.” He”
― Penelope Douglas, Punk 57

“Baby, I could watch you watching paint dry, and I still wouldn’t be bored.” Garrett Graham, my own personal sweet-talker.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“She tries to take a step down the hall, but I tug on her hand and kiss her again, and this time it's not a peck. I kiss her hard, losing myself in her taste and her heat and every damn thing about her. I never expected her. Sometimes people sneak up on you and suddenly you don't know you ever lived without them.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Deal

“I love you, you stupid jackass.”
― Elle Kennedy, The Mistake