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No one had ever talked about me that way, like I was so close to perfect the imperfections were washed away.
“I don’t care. Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.”
“I push people away because I don’t want them to see who I really am,”
“Because if people know the real me and still choose to walk away, I’m not sure I could really take that.”
“We don’t deserve anything, Rowen. We don’t deserve punishment, we don’t deserve happiness, life owes us nothing. Realize that.”
“So we have to take what we want because life sure as shit isn’t going to freely hand it over.”
“I’m a huge failure. But I want to be better. You make me want to be better. I know you might disagree, but I know you deserve better.”
“But I love you.” And there it was. Most vulnerable feeling ever. “I love you so much it scares me.”
Happiness wasn’t exactly the right word, though. No word in my vocabulary bank quite worked. Whatever that emotion was, it was the best damn feeling I’d ever had. I wanted his love more than anyone’s . . . I had it.
He liked the real Rowen Sterling. He even liked the one I pretended to be. My past and all the dark parts of it didn’t matter to him. He loved me.
We shouldn’t get hung up on the questions we can’t answer because life, by definition, is confusing. We’re never going to have all the answers. Never. We should focus on the questions we can answer and make peace with the ones we can’t.”
Rowen. I know what it’s like to want to curl up and die rather than get up and face another day. I know what it’s like to feel like not a single soul in the world would care if you died. I know what it’s like to lose all of your faith in humanity.”
I’m telling you so you know you’re not alone. So you know you can walk away from a tragic past and live a peaceful life.”
“Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that’s the only way we can keep the tree alive. It’s hard and it hurts, but it’s what’s best.” She paused to take a breath. “Don’t let a dying branch take you down with it.
