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1 " You’re mine, Grace. More than my muse, more than a lover. I’ve never felt this way before about anything or anyone and I…I know that if you just trust me, if you give me your heart, I will carry it with me. I will be kind and gentle with it. I will always keep it tucked in next to mine. So that whatever happens in the future, it doesn’t matter. I’ll have your heart and you’ll have mine. "
― Karina Halle , One Hot Italian Summer
2 " Don’t you see, Grace? You are everything to me. And I have a possessive heart. It wants only you. "
3 " Please. If you find yourself falling in love with me, don’t stop it. Don’t hold back. Don’t deny yourself that. Let yourself love me. "
4 " You are in the midst of uncovering yourself. Right here, right now. You will discover who you are. You will flourish.” … “I see it happening before my eyes. And it’s all you. "
5 " You are everything to me. And I have a possessive heart. It wants only you. "
6 " As an author, you notice it. It’s always overlooked for literary fiction, whatever that means. People always thumb their nose at the genre, even though romance finds its way into every good story, every good movie or TV show. "
7 " Yet the flaws make us who we are. What we’ve been through make us who we are. This life, it’s trial by fire. If we didn’t go through it, we wouldn’t be the people we are today, and we wouldn’t fit like we do right now. "
8 " Maybe we’re born whole and polished and unscathed, and then life slowly chips away at us. Some of those chips are deep, some are just surface scratches, but we carry them with us as we walk through life, becoming more and more worn. Yet the flaws make us who we are. What we’ve been through make us who we are. This life, it’s trial by fire. If we didn’t go through it, we wouldn’t be the people we are today, and we wouldn’t fit like we do right now. "
9 " Per favore,” he says gravely, holding my hand up his mouth and placing a kiss on my knuckles, his eyes pinning me in place. “Please stay with me. "
10 " Mia Musa,” I whisper to her, kissing her again. I pull back, searching her eyes, feeling everything inside threatening to spill over. “I want you. I want this. Always. Not just for now. I want so much from you that I’m afraid to ask…I don’t even think I’m worthy of asking. "
11 " I will never grow tired of you. I will never stop wanting you. "
12 " I’ve been starved for affection for far too long. Now that I’ve had a taste of it, I’m craving it "
13 " This woman will make me fall so damn hard, that I won’t be able to get to my feet again. "
14 " I’m always thinking about you,” I tell her. “You’re the first thing I think about when I wake up, and the last thing I think about before I fall asleep. And you’re in every single thought in-between. "
15 " Claudio,” she says in a hush, eyes darting from me to the road. “We can’t…people can see.”“Fuck them,” I growl. “And fuck me before I lose my damn mind.” … “You don’t think they haven’t seen someone fuck in a Ferrari before? Bella, this is Italy. "