An emotion clamped down on her heart. It squeezed her into a terrible silence. But he said nothing after that, only her name, as if her name were not a name but a question. Or perhaps that it wasn’t how he had said it, and she was wrong, and she’d heard a question simply because the sound of him speaking her name made her wish that she were his answer. Marie Rutkoski
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The moment when the world stopped spinning and everything became quiet and everything was just her and him. The moment when she knew that he loved her. She knew that he was hers and no one else’s.

Source: The Winners Crime

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