Rachel

“What happens next is this: He kisses her. It is Sophie's first kiss. It seems to her that, for as long as there are stars and a river of time running backward and forward, carrying the world moment by moment, this kiss will exist in every one of them.”
― Libba Bray, Under the Same Stars

“He wanted to be wherever she was, and he wanted her to be wherever he was. Simple as breathing.”
― Ava Wilder, Some Kind of Famous

“These children were not born to hate this way. They had been taught. They had watched their parents and they had watched the world and this is what they had been shown.”
― Clint Smith

“I want to marry you," he said.
My heart stopped. "You do?"
"Desperately."
"Oh," I whispered.
"I didn't know how you felt about it either. And I was afraid I would scare you away if I said something too soon, but I would have married you yesterday. I would have married you a month ago. A year ago. Five years ago."
"But you've had all those long-term relationships. And you've never even been engaged."
"Because I didn't want to spend the rest of my life with them.”
― Stephanie Perkins, Overdue