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quite literally the calm before the storm… but that scene was so beautiful + soft + intimate + caring UGH i love their dynamic!!!

‘He kissed her, or she kissed him—it mattered only as much as it mattered whether the house was sinking or the sea was rising.
Once their lips touched, Effy could think of nothing else.’

STOP MY BABIES

‘“Really. I didn't know you felt anything at all when you looked at me."
"I did. I do." Preston's grip on her tightened, knuckles folding gently against the small of her back.
She remembered the way he had scrawled her name repeatedly in the margins of that paper: Effy Effy Effy Effy Effy. She wanted to hear him say her name like that, over and over and over again.’

SO SWEET

OMG SHES STRADDLING HIM AND HE WANTS HER

i mean i’m guessing she’s not the wife

‘"I will love you to ruination."
I sat up as if I'd been prodded, since neither of us had said those trite three words to the other before, and answered somewhat groggily, "Whose ruination? Yours or mine?"
You did not answer, and I still wonder.’

omg did he write that book as a love letter to her or something

‘He had stayed dutifully on his side of the bed all night, knees curled to allow for the too-short length of the mattress, even his breathing soft and unobtrusive. He hadn't touched her, but Saints, she wanted him to.’

they’re so cute

‘She held up her left hand, with its missing fourth digit. She didn't add the last of what the Fairy King had said: That he had taken her ring finger so that no other man could put a wedding band on it. So that she would always belong to him.’

‘"I will love you to ruination," the Fairy King said, brushing a strand of golden hair from my check.
"Yours or mine?" I asked.’