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Have you ever been in a position where you had to love someone while they walked right into Hell? And then had to figure out how to love them even harder to bring them back from it? This is for both of you. The one who’s lost, and going through Hell. And the one who’s so tired, but refuses to stop loving.
“Sometimes people get so caught up in loving the new baby that they seem to forget the mother still needs love and care too. Especially the mothers who struggled emotionally before the baby.”
“Don’t you dare. You break for me and me alone, baby. Don’t do it for them. Don’t give in.”
“I knew who you were when I married you, Liz,” I said and laughed. “And I did it anyway because I love you. That was the case then. That’s the case now. Just because it hurts sometimes doesn’t undo that.”
“Devastated people need other broken people to have a place where they don’t feel so alone in their pain,” he said. “Misery loves company, or some shit?” “Broken hearts need someone with duct tape.”
“How do you do that? Make me feel like I can’t breathe?” She asked. “Weird. When you’re here, I feel like I can breathe deeper than I have in years.”
“I think if you want to make this work, you probably need to realize that everything that’s already happened was likely the easy part. Giving him the chance to repair himself, to figure out how to be better for you — getting through that will be the hard part. That’s the kind of healing that takes years, Triss, and even once you think it’s done it manages to resurface when you aren’t ready for it. So, you can let the world crush you right along with it when it all comes crashing down on top of him. Or you can do what you asked of him, and you can survive it for him. With him. You can be the
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“When it comes to this body, everything about you is mine. Mine to fuck. Mine to tease and torture. Mine to bend. And. Mine. To. Fucking. Break.”
