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He liked a woman with a mouth on her, one who knew when to swear for emphasis rather than lack of vocabulary.
“Of course we can. You’ve still got your eyes and your shutter-pushing finger. What we need to figure out is how to get you back to the point where pictures were about capturing moments.” “And how do we do that?” “My dad and Phoebe’s wedding is coming up.” “Oh, no.” He was already shaking his head. “They don’t have a photographer.” “Uh-uh. I don’t do weddings.” “You did Summer’s,” Emma countered. “That was different. She scares me, and she made me do it.”
“I’m a fixer. You confided a problem in me, and now it gives me great joy to force solutions on you until the problem is solved.”
“You guys are freaking me out. I’m not dating Emma. I’m not looking to get engaged and move to Tie-Dye La-La Land. There isn’t a place on earth that’s a worse fit for me. I’ll leave you to your crazy.”
“Glad you’re done curling around the toilet in the fetal position,” Niko said, stepping in on her. If he was going to act like a child, he might as well call on playground etiquette and pull some pigtails.
“Don’t be afraid of pain, or less-than-perfect, daughter of mine. That’s where the real joy comes from. Life gets its color from challenges and adversity. You can’t plan your way to happiness, you know.”
“You aren’t your parents any more than any of us are. My mom left, too. And I take great pleasure in not being her. It doesn’t matter who made you. It matters what you choose to be.”
“Future or no future, there’s no point in toning yourself down for any guy. Got it? Say what you want to say. Do what you want to do, regardless. Otherwise you’re just building a house on a shaky foundation. You know?”
“I believe in the kind of feeling that stops you dead in your tracks and changes everything you ever believed. I believe in a love so swift and sure that it knocks the wind right out of you and leaves you lying on your back staring up at the sky wondering what just hit you.” Her lips parted, but no words came out. “I believe in an ever after that isn’t even a choice because you can’t imagine your life without the woman in front of you.”
Emmaline Merill was about to learn an important lesson about pissing off a temperamental artist.
Family wasn’t just blood and biology it was a commitment. A hard-headed refusal to accept anything but the best for the ones you chose and the ones you were gifted.
“Love is an incredibly beautiful thing. Love is the reason your father keeps a handwritten list of things for me to come here to tell John about. Because Franklin loves me so much that he doesn’t see me still loving John as a betrayal.”
“And that’s love. It can and should be the source of your greatest strength, not your biggest fear.
“I want to choose you every damn day. Even when it’s hard. Even if one of us wants to give up. I want to fight and win and love you. I want to do this every day for the rest of my life.”
