Ramya

“The moments that follow my shrug are probably why it’s taken him so long to ask the question in the first place. It’s the moment I feel his heart come to a halt, the moment he presses his lips into my hair and sighs a breath he’ll never get back, the moment he realizes he has both arms wrapped around me but he still isn’t holding me. He hasn’t been able to hold me for a while now. It’s hard to hold on to someone who has long since slipped away.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“I don’t want him to ask me how I feel about it, so I smile even wider and try to convince him I’m perfectly fine.
Because I am. Or I will be. Once it all sinks in.”
― Colleen Hoover, All Your Perfects

“We all dream of stories with happy endings. We know that, by their nature, "ending" and "happy" never make good roommates. But we force ourselves to believe it anyway. That hope, that naïveté, that is our greatest strength as humans. Stories don't end happy. The best we can do is hope that they leave a good taste in our mouth... licking our lips one last time before leaving the table wouldn't be that bad, right?”
― Zidrou, The Adoption

“I think the two of them are the real deal. She‘s still the one he wants. She‘ll probably always be the one he wants”
― Karen M. McManus, One of Us Is Next