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“Sometimes, good people make mistakes. It costs you nothing to hear someone out.”
It was so much easier to write people off. Much harder to navigate the gray areas of interpersonal relationships.
Every time you hurt someone, you break off a little piece of them. Not only do they have to live with that broken piece, then the next person who comes along has to figure out a way to spackle that spot. Your behavior has ripple effects.
It’s okay. Tonight, she’d let him hold her and protect her. And then tomorrow, she would win. All by herself.
“Being vulnerable is a risk. Love—romantic, platonic, familial, it doesn’t matter what kind of love—is a risk.” She closed her eyes tight, tears leaking out. “Because you’re right. They can leave. They can die or be hurt or simply walk away.” Her eyes opened. “But a moment of that love, child, is worth it. If you have a second, a minute, a month, a year, a decade with that person? You count yourself lucky. You can use that love and the lessons it taught you to plant more seeds for love. You can live off that love for a lifetime.
“It’s not a weakness to take care of yourself. Asking for and taking what you need to function should never be considered a weakness.”
“Trust is the only reason the world ever functions as it should. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t, and I know that uncertainty is scary, but that’s the only way you figure out who your closest people are.”
“Trust is scary. I learned that, for sure, with Eve. But when it’s right, Rhi? When the stars align, and you have a partner you can be vulnerable with? There’s no such thing as weakness or strength or power battles. There’s just a person who loves you. And it’s amazing.”
“No one’s universally liked. Beyoncé isn’t universally liked. Has that stopped her? No. Be like Beyoncé.”
“The Lima Curse. Samson, I regret—” “If you regret it, you’ll give me a public apology.” “If this is an ego thing, I absolutely understand, but we’re on the same team now, Samson.” “We were on the same team then too. I walked for Dean. I would have walked for you.” Samson’s hand clenched tight over the phone. “This isn’t for ego. Do you know where my nickname started? The Lima Charm? From my father. When he was himself, before the disease turned him into someone I didn’t recognize. That was all I had of him. And you twisted that. That part of my legacy, you destroyed it.” He took a deep
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He felt like the weight he’d carried for a decade had been lifted off him. Was that all it took? Telling someone who hurt him that they’d hurt him?
