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“Grayson told me. “I wanted her to be you.”

“Don’t say that,” I whispered.

He looked at me one last time. “There are so many things that I will never say.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“For January, I don't care how the story ends as long as I spend it with you.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“If you ever find you’ve nowhere else to go, you come here to these books and find yourself.”
― J. Elle, Wings of Ebony

“His shoulders were starting to stop hunching. "It's called sitting down together," he said, dragging the words out exaggeratedly. "At a table. In chairs. Most people can get through lunch without turning it into an act of war."

"I'm not most people," I said. "Also, the seating arrangements are an act of war, and if you haven't noticed, that's just embarrassing. Do you think that everyone is always trying to sit with you for your amazing personality or something?"

"I guess you're just immune," he said.

"Bloody well right I am," I said, but he was grinning at me a little from under his overgrown hair, tentatively, and apparently I was lying.”
― Naomi Novik, A Deadly Education