Lila

“I looked at Dean, and suddenly, I could breathe.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Naturals

“I was never going to get another text from Bay. I was never going to make her forehead crinkle with my words, or hear her laugh in that surprised way she had when she tried and failed to suppress it, never going to hear her quiet intake of breath when she realised we were about to kiss, and never going to hear her sleepily say ‘G’night, Charlie’ on the other end of the phone.
A thousand tiny nothing moments that were collectively every fucking thing I’d ever wanted.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Killer Instinct

“But the thing about relationships was that no one else knew the quiet, tiny moments that belong exclusively to you two. Those were the things that made you hold tight because you were the only one he’d shown that side of himself to.
No one else knew.”
― Lynn Painter, Betting on You