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Sometimes making things nice on the outside makes them better all the way through.”
sometimes the feelings we resist the most are the ones that have the most to teach us.
“I’m building a nest. This is how I sleep,”
“You sleep with forty-two pillows every night?”
And there was everything for me here.
“There are some things we never get over. Some things we hide from the light,”
“Girl, I don’t know what’s happening right now, but I’m a nurse and if you don’t go home with Tall, Dark, and Tight Crotch, I’m gonna check you for head trauma.”
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I wondered what she was wearing. If she was in bed or if she was curled up on the couch, lipstick still on, book in her lap.
“Sometimes you have to stop waiting for something to happen and start making it happen,”
“You’re wired to want a man who’s going to live up to every one of those heroes you read about. The ones who fight for their woman, who drag her off into dark corners because they can’t stand not touching her a moment longer. The ones who would do anything for her. That’s what you want.”
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“Don’t settle,” he said. “You’ll regret it for the rest of your life.”
He kissed like he’d invented it.
“Of course you have a big dick.”
“And of course you’re disappointed by that fact when I’m about to fuck you with it,” he shot back.
Her thighs trembled on either side of my ears.
“Open,”
“I worry that you prioritize winning over happiness, and I don’t know if you’ll be satisfied with winning at the expense of everything else.”
I’m not ever going to settle for someone who runs just when things are getting good.”
“You drive me insane. I don’t want to be with you, but all you have to do is walk into a room and I can’t help myself.
And I’m sure as hell not allowing some overgrown man-child to cast me aside like I’m nothing because he can’t deal with feelings.
You’re supposed to spend the rest of your lucky-ass life trying to live up to them.”
them. If you want a six-story library full of medieval first editions, I’ll buy every book for you.
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You just tell me what you want, and I’ll make it happen.”
“When you have everything to lose, you’ll do anything to keep it,”
thinking about all the what-ifs is a waste of what we both know is precious time,”
You’ve spent your life righting wrongs at the highest level. And that’s heroic. You’re heroic.”
“What do you need now?”
“You. Only you. Always you.”
I didn’t get anxious about shit. I made shit anxious about me.
“You’re not dying,”
“You read The Midnight Library?”
“I read all your book cl...
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“Why? Jesus, Sloane. Why do you think? Because I love you. I’m in love with you. I’ve had the last twenty-some yea...
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The wife elbowed her husband. “You never obsessed ov...
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“Loving you has been a touchstone for more than half my life. But being loved by you? That’s a fucking miracle.
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Remind me every day that I’m better than I think I am. Show me what it’s like to be loved by you. Because that’s all I ever wanted.
To be good enough for you.”
I have loved you for so long I don’t remember what my life was like before my heart was yours. It’s changed over the years. But I’ve loved you as a friend, an enemy, a lover.
It would be my greatest honor in this lifetime if you would let me love you as my wife.”
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“Everything I did was for you, Sloane. Because it was always you.”
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