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“I might not be the biggest dog in the fight,” I begrudgingly conceded, “but I always have the sharpest teeth.”
And with those words, my mother cut me deeper and more viciously than my father ever had.
Just make your peace with God because I’m going to bury you.”
Addiction ruled his life. That was the pattern his life had taken, and I hated him for it. But not as much as I hated myself for following in his footsteps.
an angel with dirty wings,
“If I loved a man, and I mean truly, madly, deeply loved him, then I could never handle knowing that he was with another woman. It would destroy me. I could never forgive that level of betrayal.
“I’m not afraid of loving a boy,” I told her honestly. “I’m afraid of losing myself in one.”
He was the first man whose touch I didn’t fear.
we’ll get our happy ending, won’t we?”
“You’re going to have an epic happy ending.”
You shouldn’t settle for anything less than being in love to the point of madness. The only person that you should be settling for is the person who unsettles you the most. The person who drives you to the brink of suicide because he or she makes you feel so fucking much that you can’t catch your breath or remotely function without them.
“You can’t blame a girl for wanting to take a ride on that bad boy.”
“Oh, I’ve been sold on you for a long time now, Joey Lynch.”
I didn’t push because, for the first time in my life, I was afraid to lose.
“You shouldn’t be blocking the door, baby. You should be holding it goddamn open.”
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“The door’s always open.” “Yeah, I know.” That’s the problem.
The truth was that nothing about being with Joey was easy, and yet being with him felt so incredibly right. Like I was exactly where I was supposed to be, with exactly who I was supposed to be with.
Sometimes, I liked the fact that she seemed just as broken as I was. It made me feel a little less fucked up.
“But it’s the kind of pain that’s worth feeling, you know?”
“It’s like you know you’re about to get your ass handed to you by exposing yourself to this person, and you know that you’re fucking around on the edge of something that could potentially break and ruin you, but it’s just so damn thrilling, so consumingly addicting that you’re willing to take the risk and do just about anything to be with that person.”
He declared that we could all burn to death for all he cared
So weak. So small. So fucking uncertain.
This hereditary weakness handed down to me by the person I hated most in this world would forever eat me alive from the inside out.
Our love was toxic.
He needed help and I needed to be heard. And even if he refused to let me help
