mad4rombks

“Is it not good enough? Is that why you can't feel it? I thought I was showing you, but maybe I don't know what the hell I'm doing. This is new for me, but f**k, I thought I was doing a good job. Now, I don't know. I'm feeling a little lost here, I can't think of how to love you harder other than cutting my heart out and showing you your name carved in every chamber. But what if that's not enough?”
― Julia Wolf, By The Letter

“It was insane to let a creature so perfectly beautiful and artlessly spirited and vulnerable as his wife venture out into a world that could crush her with casual unconcern, and he had no choice but to allow it. But he had no illusions about ever being comfortable with it. For the rest of his life, he would feel a stab of dread every time she walked out the door, leaving him there with his heart wide open.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring

“You don't have to go through this hell alone, Sam."
"Go through hell?" She snorted in clear derision. "Please. I don't merely go through it. I own the f*cking place!”
― Susan A. Bliler, Bellis

“He’ll catch the pox someday,” Pandora persisted darkly, “if he hasn’t already. And then he’ll give it to me.”
“You’re being dramatic. And not all rakes have the pox.”
“I’m going to ask him if he does.”
“Pandora, you wouldn’t! The poor man would be horrified.”
“So would I, if I ended up losing my nose.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil in Spring