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“What do you loathe?”
“The way you seem to always get under my skin.”
“Elsie. You think you don’t live under mine.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Love, Theoretically

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“If knowing you’re asexual makes someone see you differently, then they don’t deserve to be in your life.”
― Claire Kann, Let's Talk About Love

“They were twin souls, soldiers destined to fight for different sides, to find each other and lose each other too quickly. She would not keep him here. Not like this.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom