Hannah

“Longing, which he’d only felt in small doses before, now washed in with the sea’s waves, crashing with wild silver spray on the rocks. The castle spread wide with turrets at the corners, its walls without roofs, jagged as if it had grown from the coast.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

“There I stand in my pajamas and love enters my world like lightning from a blue sky, surprising, unexpected, and completely meant to knock me over. I can’t say the words in return, not yet, although I know I will. Someday, and soon.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

“He stared out the window and wondered how to feel it again—that remote, that severe, that thrilling desire that Wagner’s opera had brought to him. The feeling was bigger than desire and still without a word to explain it, and it flooded his heart. And was fleeting, gone so very fast.”
― Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

“Maybe.” Lowe’s shoulders tense and relax. “Maybe there is something devastating about the incompleteness of it. But maybe, just knowing that the other person is there…” His throat bobs. “There might be pleasure in that, too. The satisfaction of knowing that something beautiful exists.” His lips open and close a few times, as though he can only find the right words by shaping them first to himself. “Maybe some things transcend reciprocity. Maybe not everything is about having.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Bride