Ann James

“Maybe you need to let go of winning. Maybe there are all kinds of ways to win. Maybe it’s a chance for you to make your own set of rules.”
“You’re saying I should give up?”
“Don’t give up. Just shoot for a different kind of victory.”
― Katherine Center, Hello Stranger

“I was angry. With you. With
Charlie. And with myself. The way I felt about you was
always so clear to me—even when we were young I knew
you and I were meant for each other. Two halves of a
whole. I loved you so much that the word ‘love’ didn’t seem
big enough for how I felt. But I realize now that you didn’t
know that. You wouldn’t have turned to Charlie if you knew
that. And for that I’m sorry.”“I was angry. With you. With
Charlie. And with myself. The way I felt about you was
always so clear to me—even when we were young I knew
you and I were meant for each other. Two halves of a
whole. I loved you so much that the word ‘love’ didn’t seem
big enough for how I felt. But I realize now that you didn’t
know that. You wouldn’t have turned to Charlie if you knew
that. And for that I’m sorry.”
― Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

“I love you, Scarlett, and it’s not the kind of love that fades with distance or time. I’m yours and have been since the first time I looked into your eyes. I’ll be yours no matter how much time passes before I see your eyes again. Always.”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished

“And what kind of man married a woman with that kind of fire and then systematically snuffed it out?”
― Rebecca Yarros, The Things We Leave Unfinished