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11:11 I close my eyes and make a wish. I wish for this move to be the right thing.
Maybe it’s cheesy to wish on numbers, or on shooting stars, but I’ll take all the potential luck the universe tosses my way.
She’ll get over it eventually. Although at this point in my life, I’m not sure I care. I’ve put my parents’ happiness above mine for way too long.
“He’s a man. That’s all they have. Audacity in spades.”
The author wrote about how men can have eighty percent of what they want and need in a partner yet seek out that other twenty in another person. In the process, they lose the eighty, but they don’t figure that out until it’s too late and all they’re left with is the twenty. Twenty.”
“I guess the point is that men are stupid.”
Once I’m inside, I change into cozy sweats and pull this week’s book club pick out of the bag, then let myself get lost in someone else’s world for a little while.
“They’re just a group of women. That’s all.”
Might as well be sharks
Like slipping on a pair of old, beloved jeans. Only, they’re not beloved. Not anymore. They’re the wrong fit. The wrong cut. Just … wrong.
From here, I can see they always were, but for so long, I thought they looked nice. My friends and family told me they did too. So I convinced myself they were perfect.
Is this what happens? The thirties hit, and suddenly one’s body is incapable of handling the abuse it’s been used to taking? Is this why I conk out after a single glass of wine in the evening?
Oh, God.
I long for the earth to open up beneath my feet and swallow me whole. Put me out of my misery.
“This doesn’t have to be a big deal.” He leans in and presses a gentle kiss below my ear. “Night, Via.” He pulls back, but with an “oh,” he quickly ducks close again and brings his lips to my ear. “I can fuck you better than my dad ever could.”
“Unknowingly or not, I want to mark you so you remember which Crawford you belong to.”
Sometimes being stupid can be very, very fun.
“How good it is? How your pussy was made for me? I’m going to ruin you, Via, the same way you’ve ruined me. No man is ever going to make you feel this good. Not the way I can.”
My friends make fun of me for my love of creamer, but who wants to drink bean water without it? A little sweetness never hurt anybody.
After a hefty swallow to check the coffee to creamer ratio, I nod to myself. Perfection.
The manthat you are Reid <3
“Sometimes, even if you don’t know every detail about a person, they can light up your soul.”
But I do think it’s important for a person to have more than only a job and partner to fulfill them. Watching a show of my own choosing by myself, or just reading in the quiet, is a pleasantness I long ago forgot existed.
Feelings are such a pesky thing. They can sneak up so easily and without any provocation.
Like the blue of a cloudless day. It makes me feel at peace.”
Yes! Exactly this
“You can talk about him. I don’t mind. He’s in your past, and I fully plan on being your future.”
“Because I don’t want to have to tell our future kids that I fucked their mom on the first date.”
“Careful, now’s not the time for me to find something to stuff in your mouth.”
“Sometimes parents forget how little life experience kids have acquired by eighteen. That there’s still so much left to learn.”
“It’s easy to think that everyone but you has their shit together, but we’re all out here winging it.
sometimes parents have the tendency to forget that they’re raising brand-new individuals, not copies of themselves.
“I tend to expect myself to be perfect at everything.”
I, blessedly, don’t give a shit. What a beautiful thing it is to reach the point where I no longer care about anything regarding the man who betrayed me in the worst way.
