The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2)

by Jasmine Guillory

There was something about being in this city, where looks were so important, that made you doubt everything you’d been confident about, including your friends.

kiss hello stage

“It feels stupid to still dwell on something a jerk said years ago, but for some reason I remember some of the negative stuff people have said about my writing like it’s imprinted on the inside of my eyelids, and it’s much harder to remember—or believe—the compliments.”

Letting yourself have feelings for people is scary, I know it is, but you can’t go through life with most people at arm’s length.

Good God, sometimes it felt like all of society was complicit in trying to make life harder for women.

Once I learned to trust myself, my instincts, and my emotions, trusting other people was a lot easier.”

I’ve spent so long being afraid of love, because the last time I was in love, the man I loved only loved one part of me, but not all of me, and I thought love meant having to sacrifice a part of yourself. But then I was with you, and you loved every part of me, even the parts I don’t like. And that scared me more, because I thought there must be some trick and that I couldn’t let myself believe it or I’d fall into the trap. But finally I realized it wasn’t a trap.”

“Carlos, I’m still not sure if I know how to love someone, and I really don’t know if I know how to let myself be loved, so I hope you’ll be patient with me as I figure out how to do this. But I really love you so I hope you will be.”