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“I want you," he says. He says "I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I ache for you." He says it like it's a lit cigarette lodged in his throat, like he wants to dip me in warm honey and he says "It's never been a secret. I've never tried to hide that from you. I've never pretended I wanted anything less."
"You-you said you wanted f-friendship-"
"Yes," he says, he swallows, "I did. I do. I do want to be your friend. He nods and I register the slight movement in the air between us. "I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend," he says.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me

“Of all the people in the quadrant, Tairn had to bond Sorrengail?"
"Feel free to question his motives," Sgaeyl suggests.
"Hell no, I prefer my head attached.”
― Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing

“...because saying something would be stranger than saying nothing to a stranger.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Some explanation for my inability to do anything without ruining everything.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me