bookishlyeverafter__

“I have never known anybody as completely as I know you, and yet I still want to sit next to you, draw close to you, closer. I want you to tell me every story, want to listen to you speak until the night sinks in the sky and the stars fade out. I want you to hold me like a grudge, keep me like a promise, haunt me like a ghost.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“I wish for you not to go anywhere without me. In this world and the next. I wish for you to choose me. A pause, and softer. “That is, if you would wish it.”
― Amélie Wen Zhao

“He pauses, leans closer to inspect the displays. Reaches out, as if to grab something, then retracts his hand. And starts walking all over again."

After ten minutes of this, I lose my patience. "Are you here to select bread, or a future wife? What's taking so long?"

HIs smile is sharp, taunting. "The latter.”
― Ann Liang, I Hope This Doesn't Find You

“For those who feel small and quiet. Spread those wings and roar.”
― Sarah A. Parker, When the Moon Hatched