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“Life is far too short to let my shot at feeling like I’m in a romance novel pass me by.”

“ if you’re not into it, you can go back to your book. My ego can’t take their head, I promise. But don’t hold out on me because you’re scared.’”

WHOA WHOAH WHOAH!!! Wow!!!

“Fiction is a healthy way to exercise the imagination.”

"Wherever he is, that will be my favorite place."

"We're happy, and even when we're not, it's so much better than it was without him."

"I didn't know regular life could feel like this, like a vacation you don't have to go home from."

"You are, you know."
"A fighter?" I say.
"My home," he says, and kisses me.
We are , I think. We're home.

"I never want to live without this."

I love them!

"I know if I got on a plane with you back to New York, I would be so fucking happy. For as long as you'd have me, I'd be happy."

"I don't regret telling you. I said I'd give anything up, risk anything for you, and I meant it." Even my own heart.
"I love you all the way, Alex."

*CRIES UNCONTROLLABLY*

"I don't want you to give anything up. I want us to just make sense, and we don't, Poppy. I can't watch it fall apart again."

OH? *cries*

"I still have a lot to figure out, but the one thing I know is, wherever you are, that's where I belong. I'll never belong anywhere like I belong with you. No matter what I'm feeling, I want you next to me. You're home to me, Alex. And I think I'm that for you too."

"I love you so much that I've spent twelve years putting as much distance between us as I could... All of that, every minute of it, has been running away from you, and I don't want to do that anymore. I love you, Alex Nielsen. Even if you don't give me a real chance, I'm always going to love you."

"You’re not so bad. You’re human. Allow yourself to be so."

"You can’t run yourself. Not your history, not your fears, but parts of yourself you worried are wrong."

"I know she’s right. I have to run through, not away. My only hope for figuring this out is to stay, sit in the discomfort."

"Sometimes a change of scenery is all that’s needed to get a little perspective."

"I know what I want. You need to figure this out. I'd do anything for you, but - please don't me to if you're not sure...I can't be a break from your real life, and I won't be the thing that keeps you from having what you want."

aw

"I love you, Alex. Doesn't that matter?"
"I love you too, Poppy. That's never been our problem."

*cries*

"I'm someone who's been in love with you for a decade, and you should never have kissed me if you didn't know that you wanted this, all the way. It wasn't fair."

aw

"It wasn't an impulse. I knew for years that I loved you, and I thought about it from every single angle and knew what I wanted before I ever kissed you... I spent the whole time alternating between trying to move on and let you go, so you could be happy, and looking at job postings and apartments near you, just in case."

WHAT A MAN!

"I love you, he tells me in a dozen different ways, and I say it back every time."

"Maybe things can always get better between people who want to do a good job loving each other. Maybe that's all it takes."

"Don't forget that you love me."
"I could never forget that."

😍

"Poppy, I remember everything."
"But you said-"
"I know what I said. But I'm telling you now, I remember it all."
"Some would say that makes you a liar."
"No, what it makes me is someone who was embarrassed to still remember exactly what you were wearing the first time I saw you, and what you ordered once at McDonald's in Tennessee, and who needed to preserve some small measure of dignity."

this scene 🥺

"There may come a day when I no longer need to be touching you at all times, but that day is not today."

"I feel broken too. I've always felt like once someone sees me deep down, that's it. There's something ugly in there, or unlovable, and you're the only person who's ever made me feel like I'm okay. There's nothing scarier than the chance that, once you really have all of me, that changes. But I want all of you, so I'm trying to be brave."
"Nothing will change how I feel about you."

"I don't know exactly what it all means, but I know I love you the same way you love me, and you're not the only one that scares."

"It's not your job to make me happy, okay? You can't make anyone happy. I'm happy just because you exist, and that's as much of my happiness as you have control over."