Magnolia Parks: The Long Way Home (The Magnolia Parks Universe, #3)

by Jessa Hastings

“People can be quite cruel to beautiful things. For no real reason at all.”

He laughs and for some reason it sounds like I’m ringing the doorbell of the home I grew up in.

Loving her like this is a kind of breathing that feels like dying.

You can love someone and have it just be there, a part of you, and still have a completely functional life—” She pauses and gives me a long look. “Even if it’s a life without them.”

“Yeah, but that’s kind of what I want—to be fucked. By you, with you, over you—” I shrugged. “Forever.”

First boyfriend, first kiss, first love, first time, first everything, really. How he was my teacher and my partner in so many key life areas. My best friend and my family and my pillow and my quilt. Each of them are like bricks laid in the house I built to love him, but the point is really that house I built isn’t a monument to a love I used to have. It’s a house I want to live inside of still.

She’s the greatest drug on the planet. I’ve done them all and I know it for sure.

I wonder if we’ll ever not be like magnets . . . not be these two things that drift home to each other no matter what.

it turns out I’m in love with a fucking emotional terrorist.