Kayla

“I enter my phone number with the name of Badass Bitch.”
― Cala Riley, Redlined

“You want me to leave, gonna have to make me.” “I’m sorry. He’s been like this all morning,” I explained to Nash. “Honey, he’s been like this his entire life,” the chief countered. It didn’t hit me until they turned identical glares on each other. “You’re brothers, aren’t you?” “No shit,” Knox grumbled.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“Heard you and Knox got into screaming matches at the cafe and Honky Tonk, and then he apologized, but you broke a chair over his head, and he needed six stitches.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Never Got Over

“I hated it [here], so I escaped. […] Once I started traveling […] things finally felt better. I met people, and—I don’t know, without the baggage of history or the fear of what would happen, it felt so much easier to open up to people. To make friends. I know it sounds pathetic, but all those little chance encounters we had—those made me less lonely. […] I needed those people, because I felt alone. I thought I had to run hundreds of miles away from here to find some place to belong. I spent my whole life thinking anyone outside my family who got too close, saw too much, wouldn’t want me anymore. The safest thing was those quick, serendipitous moments with strangers. That’s all I thought I could have. And then there was you.”
― Emily Henry, People We Meet on Vacation