Matilda

“I bought the coffee shop because you love it. I bought it so that you can have your favorite scone, with your favorite latte, at your favorite table, every morning.” He leans forward. “I bought it because it makes you happy, and that, to me, Elle, is priceless.”
― Alex Aster, Summer in the City

“He looked at her like she was the thing they had torn apart the island for, the heart he had been desperately trying to find all these years, the needle that had finally threaded him together.”
― Alex Aster, Lightlark

“That was the moment I knew I loved you. When that arrow went through your heart, and it might as well have gone through mine.”
― Alex Aster, Lightlark

“Do all books have maps?” he asks. “No,” I say. “Only the best ones.”
― Alex Aster, Summer in the City