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Sometimes the bad guy is hiding a heart of gold under that scarred exterior. Sometimes they both have a nice jawline and you often don’t know what you’ve signed on for until it’s too late.
I’m done with untrustworthy men.”
When the right guy comes along, your walls will recede.”
I put him first, because I thought that’s what you do for someone you love. It’s a mistake I won’t make again.
“but I’ve never cheated on anyone in my life. Nor will I.”
“It’ll happen when it’s meant to happen,”
All of my happy memories involve other people,
“The things that attract you at fourteen are different than the things that attract you as an adult,”
It’s ridiculous my experience with one human being out of thousands could make me distrustful of everyone, including myself.
You don’t have to do everything alone, you know.”
“If it were an option,” he says, suddenly fierce, “I’d never be willing to share you.”
you look for your happiness in things that do more harm than good.”
How is it possible I got over ten years with Matt more easily than I did ten minutes with Hayes?
“I like him. I like him in the very way you warned me not to.”
“How could you leave him like that? Without ever telling him how you feel?”
The point was never whether or not I could trust again, because love isn’t an exchange. It’s not something you hand out only if it can be returned in equal measure. Love is handing your fragile heart to someone else because you want him to have it, no matter what he’ll do in response. You do it because you love him more than you love yourself.
hope is a defiant little thing.
I’ve learned about love—what it is and what it is not—and I will carry that lesson forward into the next chapter of my life.
