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Some say time is our most valuable commodity, the only thing we can never get back. For me, time is a storm in which I am forever lost.
I’m not one to settle. If I can’t have the blaze I desire, I’d rather celebrate a life of ashes than fool myself into believing the warmth of an ember is enough.
“Look at that. You talk like a brat, but you jumped right up to do as I ordered. Good girl, Ivy. You’ll do just fine.”
“Trust me, Little Storm, if I fucked you, you’d know. You’d be feeling me for days. An experience you’d never forget.”
“Anyone can be the light when the sun is shining. It takes a goddamn force to strike with a crash so bright that even the outlines of the raging clouds are illuminated.”
“Liam, I love you like a brother, but if you value your life, you’d be wise to keep your fucking hands off my wife.”
“I’m yours, Wells. Only yours.”
“So fucking greedy, Little Storm.”
“Don’t test me. Someone touches you, they don’t disappear or lose a finger; they lose their life.”
“Sometimes, storms come to decimate everything we deem important. Other times, they come to clear our path.”
“Skipping stones—one of those simple yet captivating activities.” I send it to hop on the water like the one before it. “It’s remarkable how something so ordinary can skirt the surface of something so much larger, causing ripples that shake the
“I was angry, but I love it out here, no matter the weather. The way the sunrise colors the water and the moonlight whispers across it. The way something as small as a pebble can change it. I always feel hopeful out here, like maybe—even though in the grand scheme of the world, I’m somewhat ordinary—I can make big changes. I don’t need to be the pond. I like the element of surprise in being the tiny pebble who shakes it.”
Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.’ ”
“I never wanted a doe, baby. Anyone can command the weak or steer the docile. It takes a god to conquer the storm.”
