" His smile goes all the way, then, and when he turns to look at me I swear to God – my insides melt all the way out of my body. To think how hard his gaze had seemed to me, before all of this, and how warm and soft and filled with love it looks, now.

I want to hug his face, but end up doing something far less mad, instead.

“I love you,” I tell him, and it barely takes any effort at all. "

― Charlotte Stein , Restraint (Away We Go, #2)