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“Sometimes you have to play dirty to get what you want.”
lighting my skin on fire. “It’s been too long since I’ve savored you. You. Are. Intoxicating.” His words are a staccato that match the quickening of my heart.
“It seems you know all about being cold, Rylee. Why stay frigid when you know I can heat you up?”
To show him that love and commitment are possible without complications. That it is real and pure and much more powerful than ever imagined when it is built and shared between two people.
Just because it’s not what you’re expecting doesn’t mean it’s not everything you might need.
“Do you want to wake up twenty years from now with a perfectly ordered life with everything in its proper place but never having really lived? Never really putting yourself out there?”
I hate the lack of control that comes with drinking too much alcohol.
The fact that he scares you might be a good thing. Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
“A breakthrough is so important to healing invisible wounds.”
I want to tell him that he is worthy of love and a real relationship. To tell him that what happened as a child—whatever horrible, unimaginable thing it was— does not define who he is today or where he is going.
“Besides, someone can tell you they love you, but words can lie and actions can fake something that’s not.”
What a sad, horrible way to go through life. To always want, but to never have, because you think it will be taken away without notice. To be so hurt that you think it’s the words and actions that hurt rather than the person behind them.
