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“Under different circumstances …” The pause in his words carried a laborious heartbeat that smothered my own, as I watched the slightest smile play on his lips. A beat of hesitation. “I might’ve pursued you.” A nervous rush of breath escaped me. I gripped the strap of my bookbag in some faulty attempt to hold my composure, and swallowed past the dryness in my throat. “And I might’ve let you.”
― Keri Lake, Nocticadia

“The world around you is the same,” he says, “but suddenly every experience you have is different. It’s more. I imagine it’s the closest I’ll ever get to feeling the sun. Even the worst days are better as long as she’s by your side. It’s a kind of peace I’ve never known elsewhere.”
― Katie Wismer, Ruthless Ends

“All of those decades spent here, all of the sleepless nights searching for any kind of meaning to my existence—it was so that I could find you.”
― Bree Grenwich, Duskbound

“I didn’t know I had a soul until you stole it from me,” he says.”
― Olivia Rose Darling, Fear the Flames