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I want a man who keeps his word and is so brutally honest that it’s almost cruel.
“Men say women are complicated, but they aren’t. Just text back, and don’t stick your dick in other people. Pretty straightforward.”
“Are you in a relationship?” “No.” He looked at me head on, having so much confidence it was nearly toxic. “I don’t text back, and I like to stick my dick in a lot of places.”
“Trust is like glass. It takes time to heat and temper, to make it transparent for both parties to see through. But once it’s shattered, there are so many broken pieces on the floor that it’s impossible to put back together. A year may pass, and you’ll step into the kitchen barefoot for a glass of water and get a shard in your heel. And you’ll remember how it got there.”
“Power and wealth can be taken away—and all that’s left is your word. If you don’t have that, then you don’t have anything. He betrayed his word when he betrayed you, so he betrayed himself. There was a chance of redemption by being honest with you, but he chose cowardice instead.”
A man should treat a woman with the same respect he treats his boys. If anything, she should be his number one guy.”
The last person I’d expected to hurt me had hurt me the most.
“You’re too fucking beautiful for this bullshit. Because if you were mine—” He shut his mouth immediately but kept his eyes locked on mine, like he wished he could take back what he’d said, but it was too late. “You wouldn’t have to make this decision in the first place.”
“I’ll bow out. But if she comes to me, she’s fair game.”
So she knows that her marriage failed because her husband was a piece of shit cockroach, not because she wasn’t enough.
“Never trust a man to take care of you.” “That’s not the lesson,” I said. “Never trust the wrong man to take care of you.
“Pussies have girlfriends. Men have women—and she’s my woman.”
You have your beliefs and that’s fucking fine, but the rest of us don’t. Don’t make carnivores eat asparagus just because you’re a goddamn vegetarian.”
