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“She’s pretty, but her face doesn’t transform into sunlight when she talks about music.” He did that clench thing with his jaw and said, “She’s funny, but not spit-out-your-drink-in-astonishment funny.” It felt like my heart was going to explode as his eyes moved down to my lips under the glow of the buzzing streetlight. He moved his face a little closer to mine, looked into my eyes, and rumbled, “And when I see her, I don’t feel like I have to talk to her or mess up her hair or do something—anything—to get her to swing that gaze on me.”
― Lynn Painter, Better Than the Movies

“I'm going to marry you today. And then I'm going to make love to you until you can't remember your name.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“¨There´s no one in the whole world like you," she says, and I can practically feel her heart beating between us. ¨I´m so grateful for you.¨
The words cause me an acute pain, a kind of pleasure that make it hard to breathe. ¨I am nothing,¨ I say to her. ¨If I manage to be anything, it is only because of you¨”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me

“¨Happiness will stop feeling strange if we see it every day¨”
― Tahereh Mafi, Believe Me