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“Is it okay if I touch you?”
“Your broken is still the most whole thing I’ve seen.”
I wanted love. I wanted sex. I wanted all the things other people had and I didn’t. But I wanted them with someone I could trust.
Only, Allison and Tom both had it wrong—sometimes, you needed to know when to quit.
“What if I fall again?” I choked out. “You won’t,” he barked out impatiently. “How do you know?” “Because I’ll always catch you.”
“I was in love with you. Honest to fucking God, full-blown, snatch-my-heart-out-and-let-you-use-it-as-a-stress-ball in love with you.”
“I didn’t fall.” He omitted a sharp, irritated huff. “You fucking tripped me.”
“Sounds like a you problem, Dot.” “We are all one according to Buddhism. So technically, your problem too.”
“I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not.” Of course he was a Kurt Cobain fan. He had the same grungy, don’t-give-a-fuck air about him.
oBITCHuary: What am I, then? McMonster: If I have a say about it? Mine.
Imagine caring for someone, then letting them wander the world, exposed to all kinds of shit?
“You’re only saying that because you’re hopelessly in love with me.” “Don’t make me kill you.”
Fixing stupid is above my pay grade.”
Because we’re utterly inevitable.
“People always tell you to be your true self, but when you’re unapologetically you, it pisses them off,” Row grumbled.
I still remembered every word like it was yesterday because each had left a scar on my heart.
“She wasn’t what you were looking for?” I licked my lips, feeling guilty about drawing so much pleasure from hearing this. “She wasn’t you.”
“Unpopular opinion…” I trailed a finger up his chest. “It’s okay not to forgive people who destroy our lives.”
“Why do you think I have so many tattoos? Pain is the only thing that reminds me that I’m alive.”
The mere sight of him soothed my soul. Oh God. I was so freaking screwed.
Don’t postpone for tomorrow what you can do today.
Great. I was a ma’am now. Could this day get any worse?
Semus was vying to snatch the International Asshole Award from Row. Not only had he peed in every single pair of shoes I owned today, but he’d also decided to attack my feet whenever I had the audacity to shift in my own bed.
“I’m so glad I’m just slow, not completely dumb.”
“Truly Madly Deeply” by Savage Garden. My all-time favorite nineties song.
“You’re gonna stop pissing in Cal’s shoes, or I’ll come here personally every day to take a shit in your litter box. Now, how would you like that?”
My bully just happened to be a seven-pound furball.
“Not just handsome, beautiful. In a dark, terrifying way.”
Now I need to kill someone, and I really don’t want to do that. Blood makes me queasy. And I don’t even know who I should off.
“Heaven is not a place, it is a person, and it is you.”
“Is that a request or an order?” “It’s a fucking plea.”
“Still,” he said bitterly. “Forever and always. I never stopped, and I’m tired of trying to hate you. To look for flaws instead of enjoying all the good parts. You bewitched me, and if I can’t have all of you, I don’t want scraps. I’m not half-assing what we are.” He took a quick breath. “My heart has two rooms, and you occupy both.”
Why am I never fucking enough?
I felt drained just knowing humanity was still in existence.
I realized suddenly that I was the person I’d been waiting for. The heroine of my own book.
“I want you to know,” I said slowly, “that I will not be intimidated again. If you try to hurt me like you did when we were teenagers, I’m going to break every bone in your body in self-defense.”
“He was the coolest thing a person could be—unapologetically himself.”
“Let me make something very clear here—I love cooking. I love traveling. I love money.” I took a breath. “But I love you more than all of those things combined. That won’t change tomorrow, next month, or next year. You’ve given me in eight weeks what I haven’t had in twenty-seven years. You’ve given me smiles, laughs, warmth, and hope. But I have to protect my own heart too, and right now, spending time with you is killing me. If, one day, be it near or far, you change your mind, you know where to find me. Until then, it’s all or nothing. And I’ll take nothing over something.”
You are a fucking rock star, and I want you to remember that every time you doubt yourself. That there’s a guy out there in the world who worships the ground you walk upon. That you marked him so thoroughly, he’ll never forget you.”
He said you were the most beautiful girl in the world. That’s how I was supposed to recognize you.”
Thought I was losing my mind.” “Nope. You were just gaining my heart.
She had come here using her last pennies to tell me she loved me. I was so going to marry the fuck out of this girl.
“My hair tips are orange today, Dadushka,” I whispered. “Because I’m finally happy.”
