Angie

“We've kissed before.

We've kissed every time our eyes connected. We've kissed when our hands join and our bodies brush against each other. We've kissed when we both laugh at something.”
― Calia Read, The Surviving Trace

“You didn’t come.”

“You didn’t call.”

She looks down at their tangled hands. “Tell me, Luc,” she says. “Was any of it real?”

“What is real to you, Adeline? Since my love counts for nothing?”

“You are not capable of love.”

He scowls, his eyes flashing emerald. “Because I am not human? Because I do not wither and die?”

“No,” she says, drawing back her hand. “You are not capable of love because you cannot understand what it is to care for someone else more than yourself. If you loved me, you would have let me go by now.”

Luc flicks his fingers. “What nonsense,” he says. “It is because I love you that I won’t. Love is hungry. Love is selfish.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Everything changes, foolish girl. It is the nature of the world. Nothing stays the same.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“But most of us are too scared to even ask what we want, in case we can't have it.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation