Sami

“So then you know,” he said. “I love you and I never stopped. I’ve thought of nothing but you since you returned—and before that. Since ever I saw you.” He met my eyes with a fierce, needful expression I had not seen before. “In truth, Morgan, I can no longer remember when I haven’t thought of you. It’s as if you’ve been my whole life.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“We were water then, fluent, indivisible; a lake in a rainstorm, rippling with life; a waterfall colliding with itself in tumult and thrill; a river in spring thaw, wild and unceasing, rushing to meet the salt embrace of the sea.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“The name, peregrine,” my father said. “It means ‘wanderer.’ ‘She that roams.’ ” He looked down at me, lines on his face drawn grave. “Do you know what her greatest strength is, Morgan?” “Yes. Her talons, for the crushing of skulls.” He had told me so on our very first flight—the beak is sharp and worth your caution, but never forget her talons: there death resides. But today, I was wrong. “Survival,” he said. “At any given moment she can fly away, knowing she can live. She doesn’t need me, the falconer, or the shelter of the mews. That is the greatest power of all.”
― Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name

“Love is really a verb. It’s an action.”
― Allison Raskin, Overthinking About You: Navigating Romantic Relationships When You Have Anxiety, OCD, and/or Depression