Lau ♡

“What do you want?” I swallow again. “I mean, as a prize. What do you want as a prize?"
(...)When Brandon speaks, his words are breaths against my cheek, and I can feel them where we touch, vibrations from his chest to my arm. “You,” he says. “If I compete and win, I want you as my prize.”
― Elyse Springer, Heels Over Head

“But life is what novels are about. A novel can contain more truth than a thousand newspaper articles or scientific papers. It can make you imagine, just for a little while, that you’re someone else—and then you understand more about people who are different from you.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

“But my mom had told me once that regret was worse than fear.”
― Mariana Zapata, From Lukov with Love

“I can't love you again," Ben said, his heart aching on the words. "How can I, when I never stopped? I couldn't stop loving you when I hated you so much it made me sick to think about you. I used to dream about killing you and wake up crying because I thought you were dead. I can't not love you. I don't know how.”
― K.J. Charles, Jackdaw