Mary

“I’m here if you need me, kid.”
I stopped, filled with utter love. “I’ll always need you, Dad.”
Tenderness gleamed in his eyes. “Love you.”
― Samantha Young, On Loverose Lane

“It hits me with a painful force, the reminder. Of just how much I love her. God, I love all of her. Her impossibilities, her exasperations. I love how gentle she is with me when we’re alone. How soft and kind she can be in our quiet moments. How she never hesitates to defend me.
I love her.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Restore Me

“If you’d grown up around the couples I grew up around, including my parents, you wouldn’t be so cynical about love. It exists.”
― Samantha Young, On Loverose Lane

“You seem like a nice bloke, Callan, so please don’t take offense when I tell you that if you hurt my daughter, I will come for you in every way I possibly can.” His expression hardened. “Your dreams of a real estate business. Poof. Gone in a puff of fucking smoke. But that won’t compare to how it’ll feel to have your nutsack ripped off. You get me?”
― Samantha Young, On Loverose Lane