Thao

“Lady Ivy, tell Bram that hilarious thing you were just telling me," Emmett says. I could kill him.
"Um-" I rack my brain for anything clever I've ever said. "Shrimps' hearts are in their heads," I stammer.
"What?" Bram says at the same time that Emmett says "What?" even louder.
"Uh, shrimps' hearts-"
"No, we heard you," Emmett says.
"Are you . . . fond of shrimp?" Bram asks.
"Not particularly."
"Oh," Bram says while Emmett stands behind him, looking at me wide-eyed and horrified.
"I'll go now." I turn and walk in the opposite direction.
"Wai, no, the other hilarious thing!" Emmett calls, and I run, not toward the center of the maze, but to hide from him.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“Somewhere, across time and space, there's a version of me and a version of you, wearing matching rings, tangled up in front of a fireplace, together. I have to believe that's true.
In another life, it would have been us, but not in this one.
I can't have you in the way you deserve to be had.
Know how desperately I love you.
Know how sorry I am.
And know that I'm doing the best that I can.”
― Sasha Peyton Smith, The Rose Bargain

“And he loved her. He loved her. He loved her. He loved her. He loved her so much he’d rewritten history.”
― Stephanie Garber, A Curse for True Love