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I hate doing that but I just want to enter the book and scream at her so it’s a DNF for me…I loved him so it was a hard choice

“If I had a nut allergy, I’d taste your food to make sure it’s safe and if it wasn’t and I died, I’d die happy because I died protecting you. Do you understand?” 

« “I lost my voice screaming for my dad to change. I was never loud enough for him to hear me. »

« The constant unconscious impulse to see if she was okay or having a good time or if she needed something. »

« Maybe this isn’t the kind of love that deserves to exist. Maybe it’s the kind that wars start over. The kind that topples empires and never leaves the world better than it found it.’”

« I wondered if the only time our dog was truly happy was when Larissa and I were in the same place. I was beginning to think it was like that for me too. »

« Forever, by the way. I love you now, and I’ll love you forever. »

« I decided in that moment that her hands in my hair were my favorite thing ever. »

« My heart had never beat this hard, and my chest started to hurt from the throbbing. But if that’s what kissing her would feel like for the rest of my life, I would deal with the pain. »

[I don’t ever want you to stop talking, because your voice is the most beautiful thing I get to hear every day.]

“You’re allowed to struggle,” Wes said quietly, cupping the back of my head with his hand. “It doesn’t make you weak.”

“You don’t have to be fearless. Being scared or nervous is part of life. Just don’t let the fear make the decisions for you.”

« The small, hidden moment we shared lingered in my mind. I found it fascinating how everything around us disappeared when our hands touched. »

« realizing he had only picked that flavor because I had hesitated earlier. »

« I wanted to reach back for her hand. To slip my fingers into hers again and disappear into that quiet, hidden space we’d created just moments before. I wanted that calm back, but I didn’t dare. »

« I didn’t know how she felt, and her feelings mattered more than anything. »
« We were each other’s safe space. And that was everything to me. She was everything to me. »

« She was different, and to me, that difference felt fragile and precious. I carried this quiet fear that one day she’d change in a way I couldn’t protect anymore. That she’d wake up and decide she didn’t need me hovering around her all the time. »

“I wish loving someone didn’t feel like standing in the middle of a storm.”

[I think the right people are worth standing in the storm for.]

« Her eyes shone with happiness. That was my favorite way her eyes looked, especially when they shone like that for me alone. »