Sunny

“Come on." He snuffles his face into my shoulder, which I think he's trying to disguise as affection when really he's using me as a towel.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky

“I would teach my body to regrow my heart each time I gave it to him, over and over and over again. Heart after heart after heart—every one of them his.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky

“I look down at his hand and laugh without quite knowing why. “You deserve some sort of reward for putting up with me.”
“You’re my reward.”
“Shit reward I am.”
“Why do you think everyone needs some sort of recompense for being around you?” he says,
his voice so gentle I almost start to cry.
...
He wraps an arm around me and I can feel the light touch of his hand on the back of my neck, fingers stroking my hair.
"You don't owe me sex, you don't owe me anything. I'm with you because I want to be, and if we're together it'll be because we both want to be. And we're going to London together because we want to, and it's going to be a disaster, but that's alright because we'll have each other, and there's no one on this goddamn planet I'd rather be with than you.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky

“Someday, you little twat, I'd tell him, it's going to be more. It's going to be better, and so will you. Where we start doesn't have to be where we end up.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky