Angely

“It was when she returned to him, chilled & clearheaded, that it happened. He sat against the tree, his knees bent & his head in his hands. His shoulders slumped. Tired, unhappy. Something tender caught in her breath at the sight of him. And then he raised his eyes and looked at her, and she saw what she had not seen before. She gasped.
His eyes were beautiful. His face was beautiful to her in every way, and his shoulders and hands. And his arms that hung over his knees, and his chest that was not moving, because he held his breath as he watched her. And the heart in his chest. This friend. How had she not seen this before? How had she not seen him? She was blind. And then tears choked her eyes, for she had not asked for this. She had not asked for this beautiful man before her, with something hopeful in his eyes that she did not want.”
― Kristin Cashore, Graceling

“Edward,' she mumbled softly.

She was dreaming of me.

Could a dead, frozen heart beat again? It felt like mine was about to.

'Stay,' she sighed. 'Don't go. Please... don't go”
― Stephenie Meyer, Midnight Sun [2008 Draft]

“And friends don't let other friends make drunken declarations and expect them to act upon them the next day.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Anna and the French Kiss

“...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion