Avid Booker

“Just get off the bus somewhere safe and wait for me, all right? I fucking love you. I love you. And I'm sorry you fell in love with an idiot. I'm...Remember Seattle, you said we've been trying this whole time. Since last summer. To be in a relationship. I didn't fully understand at the time, but I do now. There was never going to be a life away from you, because, Jesus, that's no life at all. You, Hannah. Are my life. I love you and I'm coming home, so please, babe. Please. Will you just wait for me? I'm sorry.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“There’s room for different kinds of greatness. Even if you cry doing it. Hell, especially if you cry doing it.”
― Mia Sosa, The Worst Best Man

“I could tell by the way you looked at her, she was something real special.” “How did I look at her?” He was afraid to find out. “Ah, son. Like a summer day showing up after a hundred years of winter.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“I don’t know what was more exhausting—being forced to spew out overwrought poetry for hours on end or having that little girl gaze at me all night as if I hung the moon.”

A wry smile touched Adrian’s lips. “Didn’t you?”

“No,” Julian retorted, lifting the decanter to the sky in a mocking toast. “Only the stars.”
― Teresa Medeiros, After Midnight