Mohammed Mersal

“You still don't like me?" he asked, his voice hoarse.
"No," she said, trying her best to sound convincing.
"I can live with that," he said smiling.”
― Zøe Haslie, Just For A While

“If she only knew that all of his poems had been written to her and no one else, every single one, even the one to Night, even the one to the Spirit of the Swamp. But that was something she should never know.”
― Knut Hamsun, Victoria

“You do not enter a race to lose”
― Leigh Bardugo, Wonder Woman: Warbringer

“She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen in his young life… In the few seconds, that he stood there––dumb-struck, taking in her beauty. Will Wilson, fell, totally, hopelessly, in love with Mary.”
― Cleo W. Robinson Jr., Trails to and Tales of Sanderson, Texas