«I tell myself for the twelfth time this week and avoid the eyes of the Feelings Monster that keeps rearing its head and making me think I feel something for a person whom I couldn’t possibly feel for and I don’t and, even if I could, I can’t anyway.»

(…)

«He squints at me playfully. “You tell me, Baby.”
My heart skips a beat when he calls me that, but he doesn’t mean it how I want him to.»

Daisy Haites
(Magnolia Parks Universe #2)
by Jessa Hastings

«I shove away his hand from my eyes and look up at him, and he’s staring down at me—brows low, face serious and all ripe with the kind of confusion one might have when you realise someone likes you more than you like them and I feel shamefully see-through, like I just gave all of me all away. And he’s all surprised that I know his face, but what he doesn’t know is that how he looks in the morning time is burned into my memory and one day, when all this is over and we’re not hooking up anymore and he’s with someone else and I’ve figured out how to move on and past him and we’re not together anymore because I don’t think he has room in his heart to see me like that when all he can see is her, even if sometimes now it feels like maybe he could—even then, I will see his face when I close my eyes.»

Daisy Haites
(Magnolia Parks Universe #2)
by Jessa Hastings

“I’m done…” I give her a look. “I’m done with other girls, okay? I just want to be with you…»

Daisy Haites
(Magnolia Parks Universe #2)
by Jessa Hastings