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Because the right place to start when having a mental breakdown is with a killer fucking playlist.
“Wanting a man to dance with you in a parking lot because he’s so fucking in love with you he can’t wait to get you home and into his arms isn’t childish. Thinking you’re too manly to pull over and give your girl that? That’s childish.”
To make “pretending” something that lasts forever.
I love that we won’t have to spend years learning the little things because she’s always known me, we’ve always been around each other.
“Your parents’ happiness is not your responsibility.”
“Stability doesn’t always equate to happiness or fulfillment,
While she laughs, I reach out to her hand, pulling it across the table and manipulating the straw wrapper onto her ring finger.
Life keeps moving, even if you stop.
I don’t know much about the universe except that it’s never steered me wrong because it’s always directed me to you.”
Because every midnight is a new day I get to start with Zoe, a new day I get to work toward convincing her she’s meant to be mine.
And I drive, deciding then and there that it’s going to be my job to make sure Zoe gets to live a life that makes her happy—not everyone else proud.
Even in pretend, I can’t be with a man who doesn’t understand the direness of how terrible Jake Gyllenhaal is.
