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"He stares up at me like I’m something to be worshipped."

“Sweetheart (. . .) I’ve been on my knees for you this entire time.”

"He can be whoever he needs to be with me. Rough, broken, breathless, perfect. Every shade in between."

She’s everywhere (. . .) like breadcrumbs to my goddamned obsession.

"Her magic is her. Thorns and all."

“I want it (. . .) However long you’re here—whatever time you have left—I want it to be with me. I want all your minutes, Darcy. Every last one.”

"I started making bouquets for her with the wildflowers I found along the road on my way home from work. Kept at it enough that she got it in her head I should open my own shop. She said (. . .) Well. She said if I loved flowers so much, maybe I should spend more of my time with them. But I don’t think she realized the only reason I ever loved flowers is because she did.”

"The first porch step creaks under my boot. The second one groans. It’s an orchestra of Scooby-Doo sounds."

"I bet there’s not a single claw-foot tub inside this ramshackle building. Or if there is, it’s probably filled with . . . spiders. Hazardous materials. The blood of virgins."

"This might be the most embarrassing thing to ever happen to me, and that includes that time I had to collect the soul of a man who died while sitting on the toilet."