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“Why does it feel like my heart is
breaking all over again? Missing Xaden is illogical and annoying and kind of pathetic, but I can’t make the feeling ebb.
“We will see them in a week.”
So why does every instinct I have scream we won’t?”
― Rebecca Yarros, Iron Flame

“Okay, so tell me your three favorite things about UCLA so far.” Liz Buxbaum, Liz Buxbaum, and Liz Buxbaum. “The food, the scooters, and the libraries.” “The libraries?” I could see I’d shocked her with that one. “There’s just something about studying in these libraries that feels so innately… collegiate, right?” I really was a little in love with them. “Like, you walk into Powell, and it feels like every movie you’ve ever seen about college. The dark wood, the desk lamps, the intricate carvings on the arched ceilings—how can you not be inspired to read and learn in a place like that?”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies

“Marry me, Pae. I’m already on one knee, but I’ll get down on both and beg for you, if you like.”
― Lauren Roberts, Fearless

“Do you know how many 12:13s I've watched pass without you? Tonight it'll be the seven hundred and twentieth," I said, the words burning my throat. "The last thing in the world I want is to say something that makes that number infinite, but I also can't let you erase our history. I don't want to remember the bad parts, but I refuse to forget the good.”
― Lynn Painter, Nothing Like the Movies