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To discovering that you’re allowed to fall in love as many times as possible in your lifetime. Whether it’s with a new lover or an old friend. Whether it’s with the same person, but new versions of each other as you grow. Fucking fall. Do it loudly. Do it at your own pace. Rush. Ease in. Enjoy an instant lust, a slow burn, or a happy for now. Rebound. Fall again.
“I know you’re watching me walk away,” I call out as I turn my head to the side. “Hard not to when you consider how much I liked watching you come,” he says,
“I want a woman who has no agenda other than to help the people she loves. I want to be the kind of man who’s good enough for a woman like that.”
“You scared yet?” “Since the moment you called me Peach,”
“People always think that you get one great love of your life, but I think whatever asshat said that never considered all the different kinds of love that could show up over the course of a lifetime.”
“When someone feels right, you lean into it. Loving someone again doesn’t mean one has to be better or stronger. If you’re smart, you’ll fall in love as many times as the world will allow—sometimes, it’s with the same person and all the new versions of each other that grow over the years. And for others, who experience loss or goodbyes, it’s when someone new shows up, shakes you up, and all of a sudden, things feel a whole lotta right. Don’t think for one second that loving Faye isn’t the bravest thing you’ve ever done. Don’t give up on her yet.”
man like Lincoln isn’t one you love and leave. He’s the kind you let hold you and then make sure you never let go.”
“You show up for your family and the people you care about, and that’s always been what love looks like to me. You are what love looks like to me.”
“You are so many things, Faye, but the only thing I'm really hoping that you never want to stop being is ours.”
“I never planned on loving you, Peach. But now, I never plan on stopping.”