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“We can’t always
see a person’s capacity for evil. But that
doesn’t make us culpable. It just means we see the good i...
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“But we can’t let one bad experience sour the rest of our lives. We can’t let the bad win. Make us stop living. If we lock ourselves down, we don’t just keep out the bad. We keep out the good, too.”
“Because everything about you screams that you’ve been fighting alone for too damn long, Thorn. You need someone to help carry the weight for a little while. I might not be able to fix everything, but I can help carry the load.”
“Alone isn’t a place. It’s a state of being. And no one can stay that way forever. Every person on this planet needs others. Needs to share their burdens with someone.”
“We all do what we have to do to make it through. I’m never going to judge you for what you need to feel safe.”
“I like you. Even when you were prickly as all hell, I admired it. There’s something real about you. An honesty you don’t see a lot these days. And there’s kindness. You might try to hide it beneath those thorns you love so much, but I’ve seen it. And, somehow, it’s more potent since you’re not using it for show. You’d rather have no one see you extending a hand to someone else. That’s why.”
“You’re worthy, Shepard Colson. You don’t have to fix anything to be that. You don’t have to dig a million trenches or replace feet of corroded piping. You’re worthy just for who you are.”
The canvas was covered in dick gourds of every size, shape, and color, but all distinctly phallic.
“Don’t think I don’t want you there, Thorn. I want you wherever I can get you. Why do you think I’ve been coming to the bakery
every day for months? I don’t even like sweets.”
“When you come to dinner, and Lolli offers you any sort of baked good, just say no.”
“You’re no fun,” Lolli complained. “You know, I’ve got this new strain that’s really supposed to ramp up arousal. I could bring you some—” “Lolli!”
“Those fucking Carhartt overalls. Nothing about them should be sexy, but all I could think about was what was underneath.”
“Keely, I think you’re gonna talk Thea’s ears off if you’re not careful.” “Nuh-uh. Your ears don’t fall off. Do they?”
“You gave me back my life. I’m different than I was before. But it’s a better different. I know where my value lies. I know I don’t take anything for granted.”
“Will you build more with me? A life. A family. This home?”
“We’re going to make a beautiful life.”
“You’re already family, but I’m so happy to make it official.”
“One we’ll choose each and every day.”
