Avid Booker

“You can’t live life worrying about what people will think. You’ll wake up one day, look at a calendar, and count the days you could have spent being happy.”
― Tessa Bailey, Hook, Line, and Sinker

“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

“His breath left his lungs in a harsh exhale as he focused on her lips, the lips that had touched his, leaving him frozen while every part of him burned. As much as he reminded himself that it had been a joke, a tease, a way to win the silly game she'd insisted they play, he still couldn't shrink it down to the right size in his own mind. It was huge and important, and he'd always remember those few earth-shaking seconds.
How could he forget his first kiss?”
― Katie Ruggle, Gone Too Deep

“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