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“I don’t know what good fortune my fates found to weave into my life right now, but I find myself slow-dancing with Christian Hemmes in a laundromat and there’s nothing normal about it—

The universe, actually, is ablaze. The planets lose track of their orbits, the birds are poets now and all the songs written before this and all the ones that’ll come after this are about this moment; about how when we’re standing my ear rests right where his heart is, how one hand of his swallows a whole half of my waist. The beautiful nothingness of this, the most intimate moment of my life to date, a life that, actually, has been dotted with much intimacy and I think nothing will ever beat him resting his chin on top of my head.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“And he's all surprised that I know his face, but what he doesn't know is that how he looks in the morning time is burned into my memory and one day, when all this is over and we're not jooking up anymore and he's with someone else and I've figured out how to move and past him and we're not together anymore because I don't think he has room in his heart to see me like that when all he can see is her, even if sometimes now it feels like maybe he could-even then, I will see his face when I close my eyes.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites

“No," he says quietly. "In every universe, it's you for me. Even if it's not me for you.”
― Emily Henry, Happy Place

“And it’s doesn’t sound like much, I know, but if my heartbreak was a fever, my brother is the cool cloth they’d lay on my forehead.”
― Jessa Hastings, Daisy Haites