"I love you more than I love books."

Gifford laughed and leaned down to kiss her, but the priest cleared his throat.  "Ring.  Then more vows.  Kissing comes last."

Gifford heaved a melodramatic sigh and offered his hand.  "Very well."
-My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand

"When someone's been gone a long time, at first you save up all the things you want to tell them.  You try to keep track of everything in your head.  But it's like trying to hold on to a fistful of sand:  all the little bits slip out of your hands, and then you're just clutching air and grit.  That's why you can't save it all up like that.

Because by the time you finally see each other, you're catching up only on the big things, because it's too much bother to tell about the little things.  But the little things are what make up life."
-To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

“Sometimes you’ve resigned yourself..”

“Sometimes you’ve resigned yourself to living your life in the shadow of what might have been.  Looking up at happiness from some low place.  You’ve finally accepted that your life isn’t on the unbroken upward trajectory it feels like it’ll be when you’re a kid, when you assume every year willbe better than the one before.  You’ve said to yourself, This is all there is for me, and then something, someone, comes along and says, Hold on,there’s more.  

Maybe life isn’t about avoiding pain at all costs.  Maybe it’s about having one or two people who have signed up for the messy job of being your salvation, who make your life bigger.”

- Rayne and Delilah’s Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner

"It's both the best thing that can happen to you and the most dangerous, because what do you have except the people you belong to and who belong to you?  But then you can also lose yourself to it; you can do things in service of those wes that end up haunting you."
-Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert

"I wished my dad had something to hope for and I wished my mom had less to fear."
-Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert

"Because these are the best kind of moments: all of us plotting what we'll eat, that comfort you can slip into with the people who know you best, who love you with a fierceness you'll probably never understand.

I'm lucky.  I've always been."
-Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert