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“It’s her or this family.” “If you make me choose, you will not like my choice.” I meant that with everything in me. Did I love him? Yes. Would I ever allow him to come between me and my niece? Hell. Fucking. No.
“I am strong. I am beautiful. I am kind. I am intelligent. I am important.” “Tell me four things you love about yourself.” “I’m a straight-A student. I’m creative. I’m a good cook. I’m organized.” I smiled. “Now, tell me three things I love about you.” “My laugh. My smile. My hugs.” “Two things I always tell you.” “You love me and you’re lucky to be my daddy.” “Last thing… Who has the power to make you feel bad about yourself?” “Nobody.”
“I want to know you. Everything from your favorite color to what makes your mind wander at night. I wanna know what makes you happy, what makes you sad. I want to know what you need that you haven’t gotten from anybody else.”
every woman deserves flowers just because.”
Just as I touched the handle to open mine, he stopped me. “I dare you.”
“I’m a gentleman, Ms. Hilton. I open doors. I pull out chairs. I treat you like a lady until it’s time to be otherwise. You feel me?”
I wasn’t looking for a trauma bond. More like someone who understood what it meant to hold on to the things you loved most.
“You have five minutes to look around for any book your heart desires.” “Five minutes!” “Five minutes, woman. After that, you have two minutes to go back and pick them up.
“We can behave like adults, or we can behave like animals. I know what I’m capable of, but you don’t. Fuck with me or don’t fuck with me. But don’t ever fuckin’ play with me.”
“She’s a child—” “She’s a person and her feelings matter. The problem is you don’t think they do. Children deserve apologies from adults too.
“That’s what you are supposed to do. You don’t stop dating the person you’re with after you get them. Don’t ever get that comfortable. As hard as a man works to get you, he needs to work just as hard to keep you, baby.”
Forgiveness isn’t for the other person. It’s always for you.
Sometimes, letting people know where they had you fucked up was freeing in itself.
With you, I’ve found the person my soul feels at peace with. You complete me in areas I never knew I was lacking.
