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“When I watch you sleep,” he said shakily, “I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”

“He wasn’t afraid for things to get ugly, to see someone at their weakest, and he didn’t fall over himself trying to talk me out of my own feelings. He just witnessed them, and somehow, that let them finally get out of my body after years of imprisonment.”

“When it came down to it, I knew exactly who Gus Everett was, and it didn’t change a thing. Because even though he would probably never learn to dance in the rain, it was Gus I wanted. Only Gus. Exactly Gus.”

“He fit so perfectly into the love story I’d imagined for myself that I mistook him for the love of my life.”

“And then, without any true plans, I started writing one, and that feeling, that feeling of falling head over heels in love with a story and its characters as they sprang out of me, was unlike anything else.”

— Reading a book where the character feels as deep of a connection to other characters as I do is something I didn’t know I deeply needed. :,)

“Back then, true love had seemed like the grand prize, the one thing that could weather any storm, save you from both drudgery and fear, and writing about it had felt like the single most meaningful gift I could give.”