Amanda Always Reads

“Love was not something, I realized, that came to you from outside. I had always thought that love was supposed to come from other people, and somehow, I was failing to catch the crumbs of it, failing to eat them, and I went around belly empty and desperate. I didn’t know that love was supposed to come from within me, and that as long as I loved others, the strength and warmth of that love would fill me, make me strong.”
― Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

“When you enter a room, I feel it before I even see you. My body knows you're there before my mind can catchup. It's like my soul recognizes yours, like we've been tethered in a way I can't even begin to understand. It's immediate. It's desperate. Every inch of space between us feels like universes, and I'd tear through every last one just to find you. Even if all I could do was watch from a distance, even if it meant I couldn't have you -- could never touch you -- I'd still find you. pg. 274”
― Anna Jerr, Undone

“if I can’t spend eternity looking at you, I’d rather my soul cease to exist. You are,” he breathed, “the single most breathtaking thing in this world.”
― L.J. Claren, The Silversmith

“You're not asking too much," he said. "You were just asking the wrong person. Ask me instead.”
― Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer