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“I know you don’t like hearing this,” I heard him say, “and I know I promised not to tell you, but you are pretty, Killer. You’re pretty, beautiful, stunning, mesmerizing.” He paused. “But that’s not all you are. You’re everything Claire said and more. Clever, funny, caring, lively, strong, brave—all of it. You are all of it.” He kissed the top of my head. “And I do know how much you adore me,” he whispered. “I just wish it was as much as I adore you.”
― K.L. Walther, The Summer of Broken Rules

“You are affectionate without even thinking about it. You let me talk for hours, and you listen for hours. You make me feel absolutely golden.”
― K.L. Walther, The Summer of Broken Rules

“Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Believe me," he said simply.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, All In