Lily

“I love you. I know I’ve waited my entire life to love you, and I’ll do whatever I have to, to make this work.”
Maybe that was the thing about love I never understood before Aiden. Like football and art, like anything that anyone in the world has ever wanted, love was a dream. And just like a dream, there were no assurances behind it. It didn’t grow on its own. It didn’t blossom without food to feed it.
It was the greatest in its subtleties.
It was the strongest in its selflessness.
And it could be forever with someone who wasn’t afraid to never give up on the possibilities it presents.”
― Mariana Zapata, The Wall of Winnipeg and Me

“Because…”
I knew, oh goddess, I knew. Still, I needed him to say the words.
“You are not his intended, Emilia.” The world beneath me tilted. Wrath’s gaze was steady enough to keep both my knees and the realm from quaking. “You are mine.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Kingdom of the Cursed

“Everybody is quiet. ″Who read the thirty pages I assigned last night?″ Miss Saunders asks.
Most of the hands go up, including mine, even though I didn’t read none of it.”
― Sharon G. Flake, The Skin I'm In

“You want someone you can trust with your nightmares. Not just your dreams.”
― Lucy Score, By a Thread