“For all I know, Hayden came straight to dinner from getting unwelcome personal news or arrived on Little Crescent straight off a breakup. In my experience, it’s best to give people the benefit of the doubt.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
“I don’t know. For some reason, I feel like I know you.” I swallow hard. No one knows me, though, do they?”
― Vale of Dreams
― Vale of Dreams
“she closed her eyes and reached out, placing a hand in the hollow of his stomach, feeling it rise and fall with his breathing. It was like resting her hand on the ocean in summer, when the tide was coming in.”
― The Nightingale
― The Nightingale
“He makes me bolder, and I make him softer.”
― One Golden Summer
― One Golden Summer
“Love isn’t something you can cup in your hands, and I have to believe that means it’s something that can’t ever be lost.”
― Great Big Beautiful Life
― Great Big Beautiful Life
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