dianne

“You have friends when you’re fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.”
― Fredrik Backman, Beartown

“It smelled strongly of lavender and peppermint, like walking into a Christmas memory that didn’t belong to her.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, Garden Spells

“It was a perfect autumn day. The sky was that deep blue that one sees only in the heart of fall, and the leaves were reaching their peak of color. The sun was shining, the air was crisp, and it was easy to forget there was evil in the world.”
― Juneau Black, Cold Clay

“I don’t want a safe relationship. I don’t want a safe love.” His eyes dance between mine, and I forge ahead. “I want messy and snarky and…” I peek back over my shoulder at the old barn, transformed into a new office, before turning my gaze back on him. “I want a wild love. I want you, even though you make me want to push you into the lake and break your computer and throw paint all over your pristine floors. I want this feeling I have with you where it hurts to breathe when you get too far away, where my skin itches uncontrollably when you look at me. Where thinking feels overrated because we both know nothing and no one will ever feel like this. Like us.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Love