Haley

“Oh. What about the rumored yearning glances at the pool?"
"I don't know. Were you in it?”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“It’s you I love,” he says. “I spent much of my life guarding my heart. I guarded it so well that I could behave as though I didn’t have one at all. Even now, it is a shabby, worm-eaten, and scabrous thing. But it is yours.” He walks to the door to the royal chambers, as though to end the conversation. “You probably guessed as much,” he says. “But just in case you didn’t.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“I couldn't face it," he said. "A world without you. I am not brave enough.”
― Isabel Cañas, Vampires of El Norte

“Because the things that mattered most never really left. The love stays. The love always stays, and so do we.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip