Evie

“I always thought that love would feel like something gentle, but this isn’t. I feel a clawing, desperate need to hold his heart in my hand and to fend off anything that might damage it.”
― Sally Thorne, Second First Impressions

“He sees a freckle on my collarbone and loses composure.”
― Sally Thorne, Second First Impressions

“You’re the thousand-dollar dress on the rack in this thrift store and I can’t believe no one’s picked you up yet.”
― Sally Thorne, Second First Impressions

“Have you ever been caught off guard by the sound of your own heartbeat? Maybe you’ve pressed your ear weirdly on your pillow, and now all you can hear is your own proof of life. You are confronted with your mortality in a base, clock-ticking kind of way: you have an engine room, and it has a finite timeline. What a miracle and a privilege.”
― Sally Thorne, Second First Impressions