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The Shots You Take
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Casey McQuiston
“Henry leans down to meet Alex’s mouth, and Alex is. Well, Alex is so in love he could die.”
Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

Emily Henry
“I sit on the edge of the bed, feeling the loneliness swell, not knowing whether it's pressing against me from the outside or growing from within. either way, it's inescapable, my oldest companion.”
Emily Henry, Happy Place

Casey McQuiston
“I want you—"
"Then fucking have me."
"—but I don't want this."
Alex wants to grab Henry and shake him, wants to scream in his face, wants to smash every priceless antique in the room.
"What does that even mean?"
"I don't want it!" Henry practically shouts. His eyes are flashing, wet and angry and afraid. "Don't you bloody see? I'm not like you. I can't afford to be reckless. I don't have a family who will support me. I don't go about shoving who I am in everyone's faces and dreaming about a career in fucking politics, so I can be more scrutinized and picked apart by the entire godforsaken world. I can love you and want you and still not want that life. I'm allowed, all right, and it doesn't make me a liar; it makes me a man with some infinitesimal shred of self-preservation, unlike you, and you don't get to come here and call me a coward for it.”
Casey McQuiston, Red, White & Royal Blue

Freya Marske
“Because if even a single woman was involved, they wouldn't have decided that a man who'd been working there one day was a more likely source of information than a woman who'd been there for years.”
Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

Freya Marske
“It didn't take long to become so accustomed to something that you could describe the exact shape of its absence.”
Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

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