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“He wraps his arms around me and kisses my head. “You’re the best damn thing that ever happened to me. Thank you for giving me the chance to be the dad I never had but always wanted.”
― Lauren Asher, The Fine Print

“I feel broken too," I tell him, my voice cracking into something thin and hoarse. "I've always felt like once someone sees me deep down, that's it. There's something ugly in there, or unlovable, and you're the only person who's ever made me feel like I'm okay" His hand sweeps gently across my face, and I open my eyes, meet his head-on. "There's nothing scarier than the chance that, once you really have all of me, that changes. But I want all of you, so I'm trying to be brave.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation

“Tequila again?” Feely glared at Gibsie. “Really?”
“Listen, I’m not going to sit here and apologize for something that happened a million years ago,” Gibsie huffed. “I puked on your dog. Feely. It was a genuine mistake. I’ve done it to Sookie a million times and you don’t see her giving me the cold shoulder. And I haven’t done it since, so can we please move past it?”
“I don't have a dog – that was my mother you puked on!” Feely snapped, sounding outraged. “And it was last Christmas, not a million years ago, asshole.”
“What?” Gibsie frowned. “That’s was your Mam?”
“Yes, asshole!”
“Ah, lad, I’m so fucking sorry,” Gibsie strangled out, slapping a hand across his mouth. “I thought she was a dog.”
― Chloe Walsh, Keeping 13

“I understand,” I say. I head back toward the airlock.
“You observe, question?” Rocky asks.
He watched me sleep, so it’s only fair he offer to let me watch him. I’m sure Earth scientists would jump all over the place to learn anything about what an Eridian sleeping looks like. But I finally have time to do some deep analysis of xenonite and I’m just dying to know how xenon bonds with other elements. If I can get any of my lab equipment to work in zero g, that is.
“Not necessary.”
“You observe, question?” he asks again.
“No.”
“Observe.”
“You want me to observe you sleep?”
“Yes. Want want want.”
Through unspoken agreement, a tripled word means extreme emphasis.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary