“If you haven't guessed it already," I said, something fervent and resonating slipping into my tone, "I need you, too.""Is that a yes?" he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my sholders and searching my face intently. "Please let it be yes," he said with a gravelly edge. "Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you, even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe.”

American author

Becca Fitzpatrick is an American author known for the young adult novel Hush, Hush, which became a New York Times bestseller after its publication in 2009. She has 84 quotes on the site. She later wrote three sequels to Hush, Hush, as well as two other novels. Fitzpatrick also contributed to the short story collection Kiss Me Deadly: 13 Tales of Paranormal Love, placing her work within young adult and paranormal fiction.