This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)

by Kennedy Ryan

“I’ve come to realize that a woman who wants more and realizes she deserves it is a dangerous thing.”

You damn right, Judah!

She loves an undeserving man. It’s a sorrow most women experience at some point in their lives, whether it’s a father who neglects or a son who forgets or a husband who betrays. These men let us down and we pull ourselves back up, hopefully with the help of other women who love us in ways that heal.

So well said.

“And you’ve done a lot of work on yourself. When are we ever done working on ourselves? I believe wholeness is not a destination, but a lifetime process. Something that instead of waiting for, you could be living for.”

"Wholeness is not a destination, but a lifetime process." This book is dropping gems. <3

Lola’s dad was that passion that burns so hot it consumes you. Her love for my father was… softer, warm, not hot, but it was that enduring kind of fire that just keeps burning and lets you glow.”

“I used to think of that great passion as a vine that wraps around your soul, makes you feel wild and abandoned and almost out of control. And I thought of what she had with Dad as a seed that grows slowly within. Something you nurture over time that makes you feel safe and secure.”

You are the seed and you are the vine,

This whole section of her describin the loves her mother had and realizing she could have both was so heartwaring.