Him: Hey pretty one
Me: love you.
Him: :-) love you more

and really? you’re just going to let me go?

His heart clenched with silent happiness when he saw her.
Lev Grossman


Peter Harris, hostile child, horrible adolescent, winner of various second prizes, has arrived at this ordinary moment, connected, engaged, loved, his wife’s breath warm on his neck, going home.
Michael Cunningham