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“You know," he says against my lips, "I wanted to be righteously angry at you. I told myself I wouldn't be with you until you were ready to be honest." I don't ask about what. That would be supremely dishonest. "But I'm just so fucking happy to see you, Scarlett. I can't be mad at you, when every time I think about you, I am reminded that you exist.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“It has to be love. It’s expansive and all-consuming and full and joyous. Hungry. Thick. At once heavy and light. Everywhere and golden. It’s him and me and the myriad of little strings that tangle us together.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“His renamed contact reads 'Lukas Scarlett'.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“My only hope for my family is that they don’t let go of the people who make them feel like the whole world is suddenly at their feet. The people who come into their life and suddenly renew the one thing they’d lost, even if they never realized they’d lost it.”
― Becka Mack, Fall with Me