After We Fell (After, #3)

by Anna Todd

I’m used to lashing out at people, and she’s always with me, making her an easy target. Which makes me a pathetic motherfucker, I know.

ok so then like stop ?

We aren’t ending things, Dick. I’m just trying to get my point across. I want to be with her, and I will be; she just needs to give in and come with me.

like why does it always have to be HIS way

After Target, I’m not really sure what to do with myself.

i feel this way a lot too

I don’t like the way he’s insinuating that I have no power or control when it comes to my relationship.

Well thats how you act girl

I’ll take a walk. That’s what normal people do when they’re angry, not punch walls and break shit.

nice use of coping skills

I have come to learn that the people who pretend to care the least actually care the most.”

I’m finally beginning to realize that you can only fight with someone over the same thing so many times before you’re burned out.

“You know, there’s a big difference between not being able to live without someone and loving them.”

“Nobody’s a lost cause. They just think they are, so they don’t even bother to try sometimes.”

“Would you just stop, already? We both know how this will go. You’ll keep insulting me. I’ll walk away. You’ll come after me and tell me you won’t be rude anymore. We’ll go back to the cabin and sleep together.” I roll my eyes, and he looks absolutely lost.

Seems she finally has a brain and is seeing the pattern

in reality it seems like you have her trapped and that’s why she won’t leave you: not because she loves you, but because you’ve made her feel that she can’t be without you.”

I know the difference between love and being trapped, between love and being addicted.

You don’t love me—you want to possess me, and I won’t let you.”

“There isn’t anything wrong with expecting things from him, especially when the things that you expect from him are reasonable,”

“Tell me this, then: you think you can find someone else to put up with your shit? Your constant whining and bitching, your annoying need to have everything in order, and your attitude?”

I hate him

You are constantly disrespecting me—you’re borderline emotionally abusive, obsessive, suffocating, and rude.

And yet im sure she'll end up back with him

The problem with Hardin is that when he’s good, he’s so good, so sweet and honest that I love him so; but when he’s bad, he’s the most hateful person I have ever, and will ever, encounter.

so like every toxic relationship ever

Your problem is that you read too many damn novels and you forget that they’re all bullshit.

Wrong

I’m not a victim, I’m just a stupid girl who loves you too much—yet

Like she relizes this but then stays with him???

“I don’t want to try anymore. I am who I am, and if that’s not good enough, then you know where the door is.”

Pain is one of those hideous places that, once visited, you have to fight your way out, and even when you think you have escaped it, you find that it has permanently marked you.

The moment when you realize that you are capable of loving someone else more than yourself is quite possibly the most important moment in your life.

I hate this. I hate not knowing. I like to be in control of everything,

My mood lightens with the sky, and I find myself singing along to Taylor Swift

he’s annoying me. Everyone is annoying me. Everything is annoying me.

I was just going jogging, that’s all.” “Jogging?” My nose crinkles. “What for?” “For fun.” “That doesn’t sound like much fun.”

The sound of her laughter resonates through my ears and travels straight down to my heart, warming my chest.

“We do need space… and this seems to be working for us. Don’t you think?” “No,” I lie. But I know she’s right: I’ve been trying to be better for her, and I’m afraid that if she’s quick to forgive me again, I’ll slip and lose the motivation. If we… when we find our way back to each other, I want it to be different, for her. I want it to be permanent so I can show her that the pattern—the “endless cycle,” as she calls it—will end.

“You always see the light in me… How is that possible when there isn’t any?”

They didn’t enjoy reading the way that I did; they only enjoyed partying.

All I want is her and me, me and her: Tessa and the mess that is fucking Hardin.

Somehow I find myself pulling into Target instead of Conner’s for groceries. Tessa is clearly influencing me without even being here.

she can go on for hours explaining to me why Target is much better than any other store.

Kimberly and Christian invited me to join them at their club this weekend.” “You aren’t going.”

every time i have a little hope he’s getting better, he goes right back to controlling her

“I want to drive myself in case we want to leave.”

Felt this

I’m thrilled to not have to deal with a period anymore, slightly concerned over the weight gain, but figure it’s an even trade.

As someone who was on the shot, no it is not an even trade

Women do too much shit to impress men who can barely tell the difference.

Aint that the truth