Hannah

“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

“Oh”
― Lucy Score, The Christmas Fix

“It was the best first kiss in the history of first kisses. It was as sweet as sugar. And it was warm, as warm as pie. The whole world opened up and I fell inside. I didn’t know where I was, but I didn’t care. I didn’t care because the only person who mattered was there with me.”
― Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen

“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