Layla

Most romantic line from a man with no heart?

If I had a heart to give, it would be all yours. Free of cost.

The Fine Print · Lauren Asher

The speech of a man who has stopped asking to be chosen.

If you need time, take it. If you want to date other people, do it. I won’t interfere. I didn’t appreciate you when I had you, and that’s my cross to bear. But you’ll always be the love of my life, and I’ll always be here, whether it’s a month, a year, or a lifetime from now.” The sound of her sob dampened my cheek with something hot and wet. “There are probably hundreds of men who’d line up for the chance to be with you. I only ask that you let me be one of them.

King of Greed · Ana Huang

A therapist's phrase that turns a ruined adolescence into construction material.

You built a nice adulthood over the ruins of a shitty adolescence,” my therapist once said, and I enjoy the mental image of it. The idea of life as something I could choose, cultivate day by day, curate and nurture. Being mindful, instead of reactive.

Problematic Summer Romance · Ali Hazelwood