Byulyi wanted to beg Yongsun not to send her away, back to the animals in their stable, back to the ranch where all the dirt roads look the same, back to the vast, vast plains and the indescribable loneliness.

It took Sakura approximately thirty-nine seconds to realize that she's madly in love with her old friend.

Minsu’s eyes were earnest as he stared down into Chanhee’s own. He was still standing before the door, blocking Chanhee from leaving. “What are you so afraid of?” Minsu asked, voice plaintive and pleading.  “I’m not afraid of anything,” Chanhee said. “I don’t love you.” Fresh hurt sliced at him. Each lie now feeling like a knife-wound in his heart as he spoke them. The pain of it snapped his two parts back together. “Don’