Kayleigh

“I missed you, too," I told him. His features turned unbelievably smug. "Clearly." "I take it back," I said, forking into my mouth another bite of mixed vegetables. "You can't take it back." He shrugged, utterly unconcerned.”
― Robin D. Mahle, The Ever Falls

“You standing here, staring at her all the time—it isn’t normal, you realize. In fact, it’s a bit creepy.”
― Alice Ivinya, Stars May Burn

“You see her as the north star that stays your course. She is the one reason that you can look at yourself in the mirror.”
― Alice Ivinya, Stars May Fall

“All my life, I’d never felt anything like that. I don’t have a single story to tell, but whatever’s in me, whatever I’m made of…it knows you, too. And I’m some kind of luckless coward, because all I wanted to do was run from it. I had to get away as fast as I could, because, right then, I knew my life wasn’t going to be the same. Even if I’d dodged you, you would’ve stayed with me. I would’ve gone back to the Tankard and looked for you every night, even if you never knew I was there.”
― Renee Dugan, A Story Spun in Scarlet