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“If you were accepted by just one person, then you didn’t need to be someone whose beauty was acknowledged by everyone.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Butter

“His gaze is the kind that could last for centuries; even if the trees withered to stumps and the land eroded into the river, Caleb would still be there, looking at her.”
― Erin Crosby Eckstine, Junie

“This effect he has on me, I can’t explain it. It’s as if he knows what I’m doing at this very moment; the way I’m slipping underwater, too tired to even look for a branch to cling to, and he’s the hand that juts out from the trees, grabbing my shirt and yanking me back to land, back to safety, just in time.”
― Stacy Willingham, A Flicker in the Dark

“To meet was to find each other. At the mysterious moment when their hands touched, they were welded together. When these two souls perceived each other, they recognized each other as necessary to each other, and embraced each other closely.”
― Victor Hugo