For Real (Spires, #3)

by Alexis Hall

I sometimes wonder what it means that I want someone to do that for me. But then I think it doesn’t matter, and that it’s just a thing I want. And either everything we want is weird, or nothing is.

“I want to give him everything, and the things I can’t give, I want him to take.”

the future is terrifying because it’s full of stuff, not because it’s empty.

I’m starting to think you should always push your luck. No, you can deal with. Don’t know is the most frightening thing of all.

“my career was just something to work towards to please my parents. And now it’s just something I’m good at and helps me be . . . useful.” “But are you happy?” He gives me this smile. “Deeply.” When he puts it like that, in his straightforward way, it doesn’t seem so terrible a way to live. We