Joan Concilio

“Her breakthrough comes as breakthroughs often do: by long and prepared accident.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“I'd had the conversation I'd been dreading all summer. I'd gone into the rooms I'd kept closed. I'd fallen in love and felt my heart break, and I'd heard than I wanted to hear, and I was on my feet. The beautiful lies were all gone. Destroyed. And I was still upright.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read

“He knew he loved her; he knew it to his core. He loved her for her kindness, her ability to laugh both at him and at herself, and her intelligence. But most of all, he loved her for the feeling he had when he sat next to her on his couch in silence or woke up next to her in bed, that feeling of peace and happiness. That he was with someone who understood him and everything about him. That everything was right with the world.”
― Jasmine Guillory, The Proposal

“I think, even if things don't stay like this, I will always carry this moment in me.”
― Emily Henry, Beach Read