Fiona

“She looks for a passion and finds it in the study of physics. Some nights, in the soft, helpless moments before sleep comes, she recalls their conversation on the roof about love and dark matter. He said that love and dark matter were the same - the only thing that kept the universe from flying apart. Her heart speeds up every time she thinks of it. Then she smiles in the darkness and puts the memory up on a shelf in the place for old, sentimental, impossible things.”
― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star

“Isolde was the wind and sea and sky of Saint's world. She was the pattern of stars that he navigated by, the sum of all directions on his compass. And he was lost without her.”
― Adrienne Young, Fable

“What's home for you?" he asked.
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"A small town and a quiet library, where the sunlight slants through the window just right, making everything golden and soft and...”
― Ashley Poston, Bookish and the Beast

“When people talk about loss, they always say that you'll never be the same, that it will change you, leave a hole in your life. And those things are undoubtedly true. But when you lose someone you love, you don't lose everything they gave you. They leave something with you.”
― Beth O'Leary