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"Isobel, I love you wholly. I love you eternally. I love you so dearly it frightens me. I fear I could not live without you. I could see your face every morning upon waking for ten thousand years and still look forward to the next as though it were the first."

"Seeing a confession of love in his eyes was nothing like hearing it declared aloud. This was a look that would make time stop, if it could. Soft and sharp at once, an aching tenderness edged with sorrow, naked proof of a heart already broken." Gaaaaaah

"This must be what the awakening of spring was like, I thought. I was alive in a way I had never been before, in a world that no longer felt stale but instead crackled with breathless promise."

GAH this is so good! I just want to sit and read all day.

Chapter 25 with the dick pic - I am HOWLING
One of the funniest things I've ever read

"We must know how to design our lives. We are all artists, and each day is a canvas."

"And what did I need to know? First and most obviously was that I had all the inner resources I needed to effectively deal with my situations. And secondly, I needed to realize that I was an artist. Not the one who paints letters about Paris. The artist who is the head honcho creative director of her own life."

"...the only way to happiness is to find people with whom you can eat, drink, and laugh. That is all. That is everything...And a spoonful of Nutella each day makes life more beautiful. It's an antidepressant."

"Maybe we weren't our stories. Those could be events, memories, and lessons, but not necessarily definitions of self."

"I'm always worried that my stories aren't important like what my classmates write. But a good love story is smart. Empowering. It's why I've been drawn to the genre for as long as I can remember."

"That's really the point of romance as a genre, I think: girls--women--asking for what they want, without apology."

"Why do his words get to come out all flawlessly Times New Roman, and mine are, like, wingdings?"

"Maybe home is not just one place, but a moving target. Home is where I'm welcomed. And right now, I've never felt more welcomed than right here."

"He saw her. He didn't want anything from her. He wished to do things for her. He wanted her to be herself."

"He didn't see a pseudonym or a mask or a blank slate. He saw Chloe. And he wanted her to see herself, to be herself. To have this room as a safe place. To have him as both her protector and partner in crime. Or rather partner in silliness."

"This was how he looked in Parliament. Regal and ruthless, armed for battle. He was not afraid there, and he was not afraid of her. His mistake. Just because her spikes were not visible did not make her any less dangerous."

"Crushes are like cravings. Why do we desire what isn't good for us? I don't know about you, but I don't get sudden pangs of longing for steamed broccoli."

"Am I really lonely, or do I only think I should feel lonely because society dictates that I should be in a long-term relationship?"

"I knew then that the idea of soul mates wasn't just a romantic notion. I knew that people could find a soul mate in a friend."