emily

“You are the reason I exist," she said softly, "the very reason I was born.”
― Julia Quinn, An Offer From a Gentleman

“Our parents live inside us, whether they stick around or not, Hud thought. They express themselves through us in the way we hold a pen or shrug our shoulders, in the way we raise our eyebrow. Our heritage lingers in our blood. The idea of it scared the shit out of him.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

“He aches to think she has lived before him, that she exists apart from him.”
― Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

“I pretend that I am simply captivated by Evelyn Hugo.
Because, despite everything, I still am.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo