The Start of Something Good (Stay, #1)

by Jennifer Probst

bespoke

I don't think bespoke is the right word here.

we like our women big, curvy, small, petite, tall, short, and every way in between. Wanna know what makes a woman really hot? If she’s real and healthy and happy. Not the size dress she fits into.”

I’m waiting for people to find out I’m really a fraud and not as impressive as my reputation.” “Sounds like impostor syndrome.” “What’s that?” “A condition where you explain away your success instead of owning it and feeling accomplished. A good majority of women suffer from it.”

But God decided to show you something important. You don’t get to choose. You can do your very best—your superhuman best—but you can’t save everyone. No one can. And now you’re learning to live with that. You just have to go through to get to the other side.”

What is it about loud noises and rain that brings the bad stuff? But I think both of us need to be reminded it’s a memory. A part of who we are now, but it shouldn’t be enough to take away the right to live a life. A good life.

“You’re enough. Never doubt you’re more than enough for a man. Because if you belonged to me, I’d get on my knees in gratitude every damn night and make sure you never doubted it.”