#books23

“There is no universe in which I’m going to let you go. I want to be with you, every second of every day.”

“But I will not run. I wouldn't be standing here if I'd quit every time something seemed impossible to overcome. I will not die today.”

“If you ever decide to stop running and make a home…” His eyes are begging, pleading. “Make it with me.”

“You ate twenty chicken nuggets in about four minutes. It was like you were in an eating competition, but you were the only contestant. I’ve never been more in love with you.”

“Our love is a place we can always come back to, and it will be waiting, the same as it ever was.”

“I love you,” he whispered, and kissed my brow. “Thorns and all.”

“I fell in love with you, smartass, because you were one of us—because you weren’t afraid of me, and you decided to end your spectacular victory by throwing that piece of bone at Amarantha like a javelin. I felt Cassian’s spirit beside me in that moment, and could have sworn I heard him say, ‘If you don’t marry her, you stupid prick, I will.”

“I’m going to love her in all the quiet ways, the slow ways, the loud and obnoxious ways. My heart has been moving steadily in that direction since she fell down the steps of a hardware store, right into my arms.”