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“It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are. Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I do not believe in such a thing as love,' Elias scoffed. 'Perhaps attraction, or companionship, or friendship. But so many men act as though love is a special sort of magic. I feel that I am qualified to say it isn't so.'

'Well, but you have just described love, I think,' Albert replied in bemusement. 'Attraction and companionship and friendship. Is there nothing special about those things, especially if they are all together at once?”
― Olivia Atwater, Half a Soul

“I never told you that I love you. And I regret that, most of all.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“maybe life’s more about carving out happy chapters than finding a single happy ending.”
― Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet