Julia

“Isn't it exhausting?"
"What?"
"Keeping people out.”
― K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths

“Forever’s a long time.” Trent’s arms squeeze around me. “Forever’s not long enough when it’s with you.”
― K.A. Tucker, Ten Tiny Breaths

“In truth it’s difficult to describe a broken heart. All I know is that unimaginable pain centers in your chest and radiates out, this throbbing, sharp ache that causes almost incapacitation. But there’s more than the ache. Denial lodges itself in your throat, and that lump is its own kind of pain. The affliction of heartbreak can also be found in a knot in your stomach. The knot contracts and expands, contracts and expands, until you’re pretty sure you’re not going to be able to hold down the vomit.”
― Samantha Young, On Dublin Street

“Fourteen hundred and thirty-one.”
I blinked. “What's that?”
“The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Twice Tempted