Mariana

“I’m memorizing everything about this moment. This right here is what I never want to forget. Whenever I am afraid of what’s to come, this is the memory I’m going to come back to.”
― Erin Branscom, The Pumpkin Spice Spell

“But real love was never tidy.”
― Harper Graham, The Cinnamon Spice Inn

“We won’t talk about the way my stomach dips when he calls me baby.”
― Erin Branscom, Hexes & Honeysuckle

“Sometimes I think that’s why I love fiction books so much,” she says. “They’re safe pain. You feel it, but you know it’s not real. You know the ending’s coming. You know someone wrote it, and it’s not real pain, not usually, anyway.” “But real life?” I say. She nods. “That hurts in a way that doesn’t always get wrapped up.”
― Erin Branscom, The Pumpkin Spice Spell