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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

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

“The best kind of love doesn’t happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life. It’s not grand gestures that show how you feel, it’s all the little secret things you do to make her life better that you never tell her about.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer

“Hello, little witch,” he growled, his voice a low timbre which crawled across my skin and sank into my veins, leaving every inch of me exposed to his scrutiny. “Hello, monster of mine,” I replied in kind, my voice a purr dressed in silk, the darkness in me rising to the surface and offering up its own greeting.”
― Caroline Peckham, Echo Fort