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“I keep talking, holding up both hands. “My point, Penelope, is that it’s not your problem to fix.”
“Of course it is!”
“Why?”
“Be-because-” she sputters. “Because it’s a problem that—that exists.”
“You’re responsible for all existing problems?”
She buries her hands in her hair. “No! But yes. What sort of person would I be if I didn’t help you?”
I try to look reassuring. “A normal one.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“What a ridiculous creature. Happy that I put butter on his sandwich. As if I wouldn't make the world spin backwards if I thought he'd like it better that way.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows

“I've been thinking," he said finally.
"A dangerous pastime.”
― Shelby Mahurin, Serpent & Dove

“I can touch you less gently, but I won't love you less kindly.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Any Way the Wind Blows