Takara collison

“it matters which people you spend time with, and it matters how you spend your time, because you don’t know how much you have.”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her

“Marry me,' he whispers.
I stare at him, disbelief and joy colliding. And it's the look in his eyes —the hopeful, terrified look in his eyes— that nearly kills me. I'm suddenly crying.
I clasp my hands over my face. A sob escapes my mouth. Gently, he pries my hands away from my face.
'Ella?' he says, his words barely a whisper.
I'm still crying when I throw my arms around his neck, still crying when he says, a little nervously—
'Sweetheart, I really need to know if this means yes or no—'
'Yes,' I cry, slightly hysterical. 'Yes, yes to everything with you. Yes to forever with you. Yes.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Defy Me

“My love for her is vehement, protracted, and interminable.”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her

“She's made of the stories she has read.”
― Laura Nowlin, If Only I Had Told Her