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“I drank him in, not worried in the least that someone would see the way my love for him shone. His hand slowed, and he stilled. I chewed on my lip waiting as a veil of familiarity brought me home. He lifted his eyes, and I caught the faintest curl at the corners of his lips. "Malysh.”
― Lucia Franco, Dismount

“There’s a someone for me—they’ve been a someone for me for years—but they aren’t my someone. No matter how much I plead, no matter how much”—his breath caught—“how much I give of myself. I’m wrecked with it, so much that I think it’s never possible I’ll find another someone and I’m doomed to be miserable forever.”
― Sierra Simone, American Queen

“I wanna tap that man like a maple tree.”
― Becka Mack, Consider Me

“Depression,” she goes on, “is a liar. If it will tell you no one loves you, that you’re not good enough, that you’re a burden or, in the most extreme cases, better off dead, then it can certainly convince you that you’re better off without the man you love, and that, ultimately, he’s better off without you.”
― Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go