Katie

“Wrinkles, Vale. They’re wrinkles.” “Evidence,” he corrects softly, his thumb following a crease that deepens when I squint. “That you laughed too hard at supper last week. That you frown in your sleep.” His touch drifts to the corner of my mouth, where the skin creases more than it once did. “That you’ve spent twenty years smiling at me when I don’t deserve it.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“My house. My chair. My woman.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“You can’t have love without embracing grief. Pain is the price we pay for participating in life.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours

“Because love and loss are on the same coin - one side warmth, one side ache - but the value never changes. And to carve out the grief would be to erase the love that made the memory worth living. A thousand times over.”
― Liv Zander, Crown Me Yours