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“She couldn't look away from his face, which did not say: What's wrong with you? but instead, said: Hi. Hello. Nice to meet you.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“And I would see her sweet and palpable before me, a shimmering, precious creature soon to grow old, soon to die, soon to lose these moments that in their intangibility promised to us, wrongly … wrongly, an immortality. As if it were our very birthright, which we could not come to grasp the meaning of until this time of middle life when we looked on only as many years ahead as already lay behind us. When every moment, every moment must be first known and then savored.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

“Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping, and she is the most precious thing I’ve ever known.”
― Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping

“She opens her mouth to apologize and he, unthinking - thinking only that he doesn't want her to be sorry, that in fact 'sorry' from her tongue should be reserved for only the most capital of offenses, such as disappearing from his life forever - he takes her hand and holds it, urgently.”
― Olivie Blake