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August 8 - August 10, 2025
To the girls who taught themselves what love feels like… You turned broken pieces into armor and scars into stories.
I used to live in the shadows, pressed between the crowded pages of somebody else’s tale like a wilting rose. Until he pulled me out of the suffocating paper, showering me with light until I blossomed into the person he knew I could be.
They say the best revenge is to not be like your enemy. I grew up to be kind, reliable, and responsible. All the things he lacked. Thanks to him, I’m no longer a rose. I’m a thorn.
“Ollie, what am I going to do? It feels like the sky is falling.”
“Your anger sets fire to my loins.” “That burn is an infection, sweetie. Get it checked.”
“That I’m yours. Completely. Unconditionally. Tragically. I will take your hate over anyone else’s love. Your anger over anyone else’s compassion. Your tears over anyone else’s smiles. A moment with you over anyone else’s forever. You’re the one.”
“Do we have a big backyard?” “Yes.” He frowned, eyes still on the road. “What does that have to do with anything?” “Well, you’re obviously in the doghouse, and I just want to make sure you’re comfortable.”
“A man’s shadow is designed to hide a woman’s light. It seeks to contain what it cannot control.”
“Hell and Heaven are the same experiences in different temperatures.”
“I’d take her hatred before anyone else’s love any fucking day,”
“I have no morals. No ethics. No fucks to give. I may be more put together than I let on, but don’t mistake my productiveness for principles. What I want, I take. And what I’ve always wanted is right in front of me. You. If you don’t want me, you better run fast and hide well. Because once I’ve had a taste of you again, I am not letting you go.”
The gods send nuts to those who have no teeth,”
“Just remember you are the most precious woman in my life.” “Why are you reminding me that?” “Because I’m about to treat you like a dirty whore.”
Stop letting one moment define your entire life. Some mistakes don’t deserve the weight we give them. Their lessons are enough. Let go of the memory but hold onto the lesson.
“It feels like the sky is falling,” I confessed. “You’re strong enough to hold it up,”
“If I don’t marry you—and that’s a big fucking if—I’ll make the worst husband in the entire world. Because I’ll spend every second of every minute thinking about you. When I make her laugh, it’s your giggles I’ll hear. When I kiss her, it’s your lips I’ll feel. And when I slide deep inside her, it’s your pussy I’ll imagine, dripping wet around my cock. You’ve ruined me, Briar. Completely and utterly destroyed me for every other woman on this planet. It’s you or nothing.”
Sometimes things that never happened haunt you more than the things that did.
“Family has nothing to do with blood. It’s about the people who enter your life and fill up empty spaces you didn’t know existed until you can’t imagine life without them.”
“I will always search for you, Briar. Even if I never found you, I would keep scouring every corner of the earth on the slightest chance that you’d find out and realize the truth. You were always wanted. There has never been a moment in your entire life that you weren’t loved.”
You’re not a chapter in my life. You’re the whole damn story.”
I didn’t fall for you. I crash-landed without a parachute.”
“I spent my life hoping my daughter has the strength to rise above her struggles, but now I’m trusting you to be her soft place to fall.”
“Promise me that when you hold her hand, you’ll hold it gently, and you’ll hold it forever.”
Spring is a reminder that while the harshest winters might take away what we cherish, some things always find a way back to life.
