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“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“You asked what my intentions are, Mrs. Brenner, and I would like to answer your question.” Dibs opened his mouth as if preparing to argue and she glared at him from across the table. Did he really think not to let her state her case in front of his family? He snapped his mouth shut and briskly rubbed a palm across his forehead before tossing that same hand in the air. “My intentions are these.” She gathered her thoughts, folding her hands in her lap. “When David is sad, I intend to make him happy. When he is ill, I intend to make him well. When he is angry or upset, I intend to listen and find the words to make him feel better. When he is depressed, I intend to bring him joy, and when he is hurt, I intend to find the source of his pain and take it away from him.” She bridged the distance to Dibs’s devoted gaze, and radiant love crested the last barricade surrounding her heart. “You see, Mr. and Mrs. Brenner, I’m in love with your son. But I don’t want anything from him. You don’t need to worry because my only intention is to give to him. That’s the way it’s supposed to be when you love someone, isn’t it? To think only of their needs, instead of your own?” She broke off from Dibs and faced his mother. “Those are my intentions, Mrs. Brenner. I hope you find them satisfactory.”
― AJ Nuest

“It’s you, Tessa.” He crawled up her body and levered her onto her side, his fingers a warm link he tunneled in under her hair. “Don’t you see? For the first time, I know what’s real. My life isn’t about doing what everyone else thinks is right in order to be happy. Not anymore. Because I found my own happiness.” The ball of his thumb swept her lips. “I found it with you.” How could she not believe him, when his words were so filled with love? “Tell me what you’re thinking,” he said.

“I’d forgotten what it’s like, you know? It’s been so long…I’d just forgotten how incredible it all feels.” When tears rushed her eyes, she blinked them away. So she could stay right in the moment, within the tenderness of his gaze. She placed a hand on his chest, over his heart. “I want you to know how much I appreciate everything you did for me, Dibs. You’ve become everything that’s good and right in my life. And I’m sorry if I made things difficult for you.” His eyes glistened, two sparkling bits of heaven over a thin crescent of tears.

“Rex, you’re breaking my heart over here.”

“I’m just so grateful, and its important to me you understand. You gave me a second chance at happiness. You know that, right?”
― AJ Nuest

“Just because someone doesn't give you what you deserve, that doesn't mean you should automatically settle for less.”
― A.J. Nuest, A Million Reasons

“The desperate loneliness is nothing compared to the torture of falling in love and then being abandoned.”
― A.J. Nuest, A Million Reasons

“I'm going to come at you like a freight train.”
― A.J. Nuest, A Million Reasons

“Parry and thrust.”
― A.J. Nuest, A Million Reasons

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“I can take two people, throw a world of obstacles at them, defy the odds, and still give them a happily-ever-after. Together. I am a romance author. What's your superpower?”
― Kelly Moran

“I think only when you are truly alone can you see you never were.”
― Kelly Moran, Summer's Road

“I only know two things in life for certain: I know I love her and I know when her memory of our time together fades, I’ll still feel exactly the same as I do today. Time is irrelevant, as I once said to her. And I’m happy wasting every second of it on her.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“The truth is I do love you. Admitting that means opening myself up to all that pain when you leave. After you realize this wasn’t love, but gratitude.”
― Kelly Moran, The Drake House

“We are all the same and we are all different. What great friends we will be.”
― Kelly Moran, The Tiny Caterpillar and the Great Big Tree

“Life Lessons According to Camryn:
One must handle stress like a dog; if you can't eat it or play with it, pee on it and walk away”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“The day I died was just like any other idle Thursday.”
― Kelly Moran, Idle Thursday

“When the leaves stop falling wasn't her time to die, it was your time to live.”
― Kelly Moran, When the Leaves Stop Falling

“Before she knew it, she was just another set of eyes in a dusty attic, waiting for the stairs to creak.”
― Kelly Moran, An Insomniac's Dream: A Collection of Poems And Short Stories

“Life Lessons According to Camryn:
One must handle stress like a dog; if you can't eat is or play with it, pee on it and walk away”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“Most of the time, life doesn't pass me by, it tries to run me over.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“I’ve seen this movie, you know. It always ends with them falling in love.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“New hair and clothes don't change ugly.”
― Kelly Moran, The Dysfunctional Test

“Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“It took a pair of ghosts to open my eyes.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of a Promise

“He slid the photo out and raised it. The sun washed out any distinguishable characteristics. All except her eyes. He didn’t need a picture to remember those. As turquoise as the waters near Cozumel, and just as warm.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“Calm down. Ghosts don’t ring the doorbell.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of a Promise

“She knew her place in this family, always had. Knew why she was conceived. And it wasn't for a photo on the mantle.”
― Kelly Moran, All of Me

“He looks at you like you’re crème brûlée.”
― Kelly Moran, Ghost of a Promise

“Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he was going out with a rifle in his hand.”
― Kelly Moran, Return to Me

“A city full of eight million people. It was all rather lonely sometimes.”
― Kelly Moran, All of Me