" I want to marry you, because you’re my best friend. I want to marry you, because I love waking up beside you. I want to marry you, because I love seeing you strut around in my shirts. I want to marry you, because I love having you in my house, in my space and I love knowing you’ve been there and that you’re coming back. I want to marry you, because without you my life feels incomplete.” He paused, taking a deep breath. “But most importantly, I want to marry you because I love you—I have since I was sixteen years old—and I’ll never stop. "

― Micalea Smeltzer , Never Too Late (Willow Creek, #2)