Istefani Marcos

“Why are you doing this, miss?” I smile, remembering what my mother used to tell me. “Sometimes an act of kindness is enough to keep one going.”
― Layla Hagen, Your Irresistible Love

“Because,” I say, unable to meet his eyes, “everyone in your life seems to take something from you, and that’s not what friends do. I guess I’d rather be your friend.”
― Elizabeth O'Roark, A Deal with the Devil

“When I say I’m still in love with you,” he says quietly, “I mean today and yesterday and this entire week. I mean at Nick and Miriam’s wedding and I mean for the past five years.” If possible, he gets even quieter, but now he’s closer so I get every word. “When I say I’m still in love with you, I mean the first time I saw you and right now. I mean every second in between.”
― Jessica Joyce, The Ex Vows

“started reading a really good book by a new-to-me author who wrote alternate reality versions of Brontë novels and spent the next few weeks immersed in her backlist. I dated her fictional heroes instead in an unapologetic phase of serial book-boyfriend polygamy.”
― Penny Reid, Kissing Tolstoy