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“But maybe there was nothing more intimate than someone knowing all your secrets, every one of them, and sitting beside you anyway, buying your favorite food, running his fingers absently through your hair so you can sleep.”
― Megan Miranda, All the Missing Girls

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“He didn't say goodbye," she said numbly

"Oh, darling. I think he's been trying to say goodbye to you since he met you.”
― Emily Stone

“Were you in love with him?'
'Yes,' I say, simply. James and I put each other through the kind of reckless passions Gwendolyn once talked about, joy and anger and desire and despair. After all that, was it really so strange? I am no longer baffled or amazed or embarrassed by it. 'Yes, I was.' It's not the whole truth. The whole truth is, I'm in love with him still.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains