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We all have our reasons for taking paths for which the world will judge us.
I want the hope I feel when I look in your eyes. The feel of you in my arms. The forgiveness I don’t deserve. I want to go back to the day we met and kiss you—claim you before he can. Everything. I want everything.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is my heart. Right there in the teeth of the woman my best friend has fallen hard for.
The memory of Mia’s mouth, her touch, the way she tastes—that was all that kept me from following her brother to the grave I put him in.
Because I’m in love with you, and I need to know I’m not making a mistake by keeping that to myself.
“You’re beautiful,” I say. “I don’t even know if I deserve to look at you, but some days it feels like you’re the only piece of beauty left in the world.”
“I loved Brogan,” she says into the darkness. “But I couldn’t fall for him. That stupid difference between loving and being in love. I never thought it mattered. But I couldn’t fall in love with Brogan. I could only love him.” She finds my hand where it’s wrapped around her waist and pulls it up to rest on her heart. “Because I’d already fallen for you.”
“Someone told me that faith isn’t about trying to understand why God did what He did. It isn’t about trying to make sense of His plan for us. It’s simply the acceptance that some things are out of our control and that’s okay.
Family is letting someone make a mistake, letting them hurt you without it changing how you feel about them.”
“For a long time I thought you were gravity. Always there. Always pulling me your way. But that can’t be it either, because you don’t pull me down. You lift me up when there’s no reason I should be able to stand.”
