“i was made to protect you and you were made in a wa that it would always be worth the effort.”

“You love me?”“Baby, you were made for me.”

“Mara, baby, never believed this shit either but now I know you were made for me. So, seein' as that's true, it goes the other way too.”

“Daisy said to me that I was trying to find ways to protect my heart but I was doing it wrong. She told me the best way to protect my heart was to trust it to someone who will protect it for me. More silence but his body went completely still. “That’s you. It’s always been you.”

“I loved you before you took your first breath on this earth because that was my fate but you made me love you because you’re just… fucking… you.”

“Men like you aren’t made, though, Tanner. Men like you just are.”

“My head fell forward and to the side until it collided with his shoulder as my arms slid around him and got tight.I felt his head turn and in my ear he said quietly, "Fuck, baby, just with that, you made callin' that marker worth it.”