Valaree Darling

“I loved you before, Ava. Let me love you still.”
― Leslye Walton, The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“I can't sleep at night. Can you?”
― Megan McCafferty, Sloppy Firsts

“He found her pretty in a bewildered, washed-out way, but it was her restlessness that aroused him, the quiet exasperation of a woman who longs to throw herself into something significant, but cannot find what it is.”
― Edward St. Aubyn, The Patrick Melrose Novels