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Being touched by someone can feel meaningless until you’re touched by the right person.
He looks at me in a way I don’t think I’ve ever seen him look at me before. Something blooms inside of me and I want to water it every day and let it grow because it’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever felt.
pretty is not the accomplishment you think it is.” His fingers lift my chin. “Be kind. Be funny. Be interesting. That is where you will find your power.”
Ambrose’s heavy boots stomp across the floor and my dad’s hand shoots out, clutching his shirt. “Why don’t you come help me with something, son,” he murmurs.
I have everything I need here.” Except me. I’m not there, but that will never be a deal breaker for her.
Poor girl doesn’t realize that I hate myself more than anyone else ever could.
“I would choose to disappear in her light any day. But I am sorry for you, Mara. I am sorry that you did not get to choose.”
Of course I want things. I’m human, after all. But I’ve always been under the impression that getting what you want correlates to getting what you deserve. And if that’s the case, then I should keep the wanting to a minimum.
You’re at a seven-year-old’s birthday party, stop mentally undressing the guests.
The planes of his chest are defined under the harsh kitchen lights, and I drink him in, committing him to memory. There isn’t a single part of me that has inherited my mom’s artistic skills, but at this moment I’d kill to paint the man in front of me.
“Did you miss me?” His nose grazes the dip in my throat and a needy whimper escapes me. “Because I missed you. I missed you every fucking day. I miss you right now and you’re right in front of me.”
when you say those three words,” he says, dragging his thumb across my bottom lip, “I want to see our future in your eyes. Not our past.”
out my phone before I change
There’s nothing like it, being in the arms of the one you’re meant for. It’s like a gentle caress from the universe. A pause in the fabric of time and space as two people who are and will always be, throw their hands up and stop fighting the inevitable.
I may have an obscene number of book boyfriends, but you're the only husband for me.
