Alice

“I stared at him. At this too-thin, too-sincere boy. This person.
Because I knew what he meant. I understood exactly. And I’d felt it too, that interior certainty. But over the years, I’d let all the fervour fade. I’d stopped believing in it, somehow. I’d let it become something I did, not something I was.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“He was gorgeous yesterday, kneeling and burnished and kind of a fantasy. And he’s still gorgeous this morning, rumpled and tired and real.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real

“If you can’t be happy, then be something else. Be useful, that would be good. Decorative, if you like. Selfish, if you must. But don’t whine about it.”
― K.J. Charles, A Fashionable Indulgence

“And now he smiled at me. All teeth. The way only people who hadn’t learned self-consciousness knew how to smile.”
― Alexis Hall, For Real