laura (asher carson's version)

“You hated the idea of me.”
“But not you. Never you.”

“I wanted Eve to be different,” 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

“Sometimes you have an idea of a person — about who they are, about what you'd be like together. But sometimes that's all that it is: an idea. And for so long, I have been afraid that I loved the idea of Emily more than I will ever be capable of loving anyone real.”

He looked at me like the act of doing so was painful and sweet. “It was never just the idea of you, Avery.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Final Gambit

“You’re going to love Violet. She’s smart and stubborn. Reminds me a lot of you, actually. You just have to remember when you meet her: she’s not her mother. —Recovered Correspondence of
Cadet Liam Mairi to Sloane Mairi”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“In the past and for forever, you are my favorite person. Always have been. Always will be. I love you. Everything that you are.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us