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“Did the light go out in your room?"

"You're so funny." I rolled my eyes so he knew how irritating I thought he was. "Dummy.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“You really want to play this game?”

“I play games for a living, Van.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“He stared at me, unblinking, unflinching. And then: “I’ll cut the power at the house when you’re in the shower,” he said so evenly, so crisply, it took me a second to realize he was threatening me…
And when it finally did hit me, I burst out laughing, smacking his inner thigh without thinking twice about it. “Who does that?”
Aiden Graves, husband of mine, said it, “Me.”
Then the words were out of my mouth before I could control them. “And you know what I’ll do? I’ll go sneak into bed with you, so ha.”
What the hell had I just said? What in the ever-loving hell had I just said?
“If you think I’m supposed to be scared…” He leaned forward so our faces were only a couple of inches away. The hand on my neck and the finger pads lining the back of my ear stayed where they were. “I’m not.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“What if your memories are a sign that we were supposed to meet? That fate somehow brought us together?”
― Angie Hockman