"“This is... You really are in love with me, huh?”
Louis' chest feels too small to contain his stupidly beating heart. “Told you I was.”"
- Don't Look Down, zarah5
"Louis waits until Harry hangs up, then stares blankly down at the screen of his phone, still flashing ‘haryr ♡♡♡’ on the display. He can’t help the little smile that curls his lips as he swipes his thumb over the name."
- nothing but us right here, supernope
"He misses the way Harry laughs and the way he snores; he misses the way he kisses and the way it feels to have his face pressed to his neck at night."
- Wild Love, purpledaisy
"You’re the best of you, so I can be the best of me. And vice versa. We’re good, Lou. We’ve always been good, and we’re always going to be."
- California Sold, isthatyoularry
“We’re really the most unique love story in the world, aren’t we? Like Jack and Rose but gayer, and cheesier, and neither of us died"
- there are no atheists in foxholes, suspendrs
"It’s fucking unfair that Harry knows just how to arouse Louis’ curiosity. Louis’ curiosity, right. Amongst other things, haha, oh God. Stupid pun, stupid brain."
- Don't Look Down, zarah5
"[...] as much as he wants those cherry red lips wrapped around him, wants to tangle his fingers in that mess of hair and map those ridiculous tattoos with his tongue, he does not want to get his daughter’s favorite teacher fired."
- nothing but us right here, supernope
The Sun's cover page reads "Womanizer Harry Styles Wants the (1)D", which, if Harry is being honest, he doesn't think is actually a respectable headline. It's very crude. (Also he's kind of annoyed that he didn't think of the pun first.)
- led by your beating heart, missandrogyny
"The way the broken pieces of his heart are still pulling away from each other, the way he finds it hard to catch his breath, he doesn’t think it’s going to be okay. Not at all."
- Wild Love, purpledaisy
"He realizes, very slowly and with a sinking heart, that the only scent that will comfort him right now is Harry, that deep, musky, sweaty scent that’s been comforting Louis for a month and a half"
- there are no atheists in foxholes, suspendrs
"Kissing Harry and wondering if he loves him back is better than the anxiety of having him not speaking to him. It’s not the kisses that are the problem — it’s the implications of his feelings that make it hard."
- California Sold, isthatyoularry
"He's just---Shit.
He's lovely, so very lovely, and he deserves to have good things happening to him. If Louis is in a position to make one of those things reality, then he'd be an idiot not to jump at the chance."
- Don't Look Down, zarah5
"Loving him feels like a part of my DNA, it’s something that was chosen for me and not by me. [...] There’s no me without him."
- all that remains, whimperinglou
"His jumper is dark green today to match his eyes, and Louis sighs. It’s sad, really, how Harry reduces him from a 26 year old man with a child to a bumbling 12 year old with a schoolyard crush."
- nothing but us right here, supernope
""You're the one who pissed on my trousers five years ago," Louis says without hesitation, and Harry takes it back. He should be embarrassed that Louis remembers him. In fact, he should be mortified."
- led by your beating heart, missandrogyny
"He needs to break Harry’s heart all while pretending he’s not stabbing himself at the same time. It’s the role of a lifetime and he’s just been cast in the lead act."
- Wild Love, purpledaisy
"But there are still spirits swimming in his blood, and he is a little high, and he loves Harry. Having him near, feeling his warmth and his skin against himself is something entirely out of the ordinary. It’s special."
- California Sold, isthatyoularry
"Louis grumbles something that may or may not be an insult to Harry's ancestors, the size of his dick and the children he may one day father. Either way, it has Harry burst into laughter [...]."
- Don't Look Down, zarah5
"“Then what do you want?” Louis says, and Harry lets the last of it go, let’s the wave come down, feels it pull everything that clings back into the swell.
“To be loved.”"
- shelter as we go, fondleeds
"But sometimes, when Harry's stolen his breath and Louis waits for him to give it back, Harry is looking back at Louis like he scattered the stars. And it probably means nothing.
But maybe it means something."
- Hiding Place, alivingfire