Olivia

“Niko, everything I’m about to say to this guy is a complete and total lie, and I love you and will marry you and adopt a hundred three-eyed ravens or whatever it is your weird ass wants instead of kids,” she mutters. “I know,” Niko says back. “Did you just propose to me?” “Oh shit, I guess I did?” Myla opens the door and shoves Gabe through it. “I’m so mad at you,” Niko says. “I already have a ring at home.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“Of course I love you. I could go back in time and have a whole life and get old and never see you again, and you would still be it. You were— you are the love of my life.”
― Casey McQuiston, One Last Stop

“You were the only one it could be.”
― Casey McQuiston, I Kissed Shara Wheeler

“We never know the end of something as it's happening. It's only in the aftermath that we create a narrative, and story can only ever be a cousin of the truth.”
― Harriet Alida Lye, Let It Destroy You: A Novel