Buttons and Hate (Buttons, #2)

by Penelope Sky

But you aren’t going to let it define you. You aren’t going to let it push you down. You’re going to get back up on your feet and push on. You’re stronger than this.”

The one thing I learned in life was never to let people know how much they hurt you.

In a very short amount of time, Button became my whole world. I’d known her for nine months, and the time passed in the blink of an eye. She came to me as a prisoner, but I quickly realized I’d become the prisoner. I belonged to her.

She was the only woman who had any power over me. If she wanted something, I would take care of it. There was nothing I wouldn’t do for her. If she asked for a piece of the sun, I would figure out a way to give it to her. Sometimes, it scared me.

“You don’t have to be large to be strong. Strength comes from a place deep inside us. It’s the ability to deflect pain, to persevere when failure hits you in the face like cold rain. It’s refusal to break under someone else’s reign. It’s a lot of things. Size is irrelevant.”

“You’re never alone. I’m never alone. Because we have each other.”