demi

“The sadness shouldn’t cancel out what had been so bright and full and beautiful. Just because the cherry blossoms would fall didn’t mean you should mourn them on the tree.”
― Kristan Higgins, Pack Up the Moon

“You’ll take one for the team then, so that can be the story we tell everyone who finds out?”
“What team?” he asked.
“You and me. Team Graves-Mazur. We signed a contract together. Sort of.” I smiled.
That bearded chin dipped to his neck, and I could see his mouth twitching.
“All right. I’ll take one for the team.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Tell me you’ll be okay without me.”
“I won’t be.”
She said nothing, and Josh was quiet a long moment, the only sound the rhythm of the ocean waves against the shore. “I will be,” he said, his voice rough. “I’ll be grateful for ever day that I got to be your husband.”
― Kristan Higgins, Pack Up the Moon

“I used to think she was a blessing—a gift from God to an undeserving man—but I was wrong. She isn’t a blessing, some small thing held up to prove the existence of a higher power and keep you beholden to it. She is the reason blessings exist. They are born in her eyes and fueled by the blood in her veins. They are forged in her name and written by her hand. She is my religion. Her body is my place of worship, and I will spend the rest of my life at her altar.”
― J.L. Seegars, Again