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I’m loosely planning to hibernate until next year once I get home to the nostalgic familiarity of my parents’ house tomorrow.
Christmas should be a time of hope and love
if anyone asks me if I’ve ever fallen in love at first sight, I shall say yes, for one glorious minute on December 21, 2008.
That feeling when we locked eyes—I’ve never had that before, ever.
“I feel as if I know you too.” And I do; I feel as if I have known him forever.
know where the line is and I’ll never cross it,
As if she is familiar, even though she isn’t.
as if something has been missing from her for too long.
“It’s okay, I’ve got you.”
Of all my possessions, my necklace is my most precious. Ginny and I both had one;
It’s been a couple of years now, and for the most part I don’t think about that day anymore; my diligence in my mission to replace all of my errant thoughts about him with safer ones has paid off.
the human brain likes to follow repetitive patterns, and I’ve found that to be quite true.
Sometimes you just need someone to tell you what to do, and on that day Jack stepped up to the mark.
I notice everything about you and you’re valuable to me.
Warmed coats remind me of home;
“Life can be really shit sometimes,”
“It’ll come good again. It always does.”
You’re down, but you’re not out.
“You just have a way about you, Laurie. Being around you makes people feel good.”
“Ignore me.” “I’d never do that.”
“Maybe I should,” I acknowledge. “But I don’t want to. I like being with you too much.”
“I like being with you too much too,”
“I can’t kiss you, Laurie. I can’t.”
We’re caught in a tiny capsule of time,
“The last thing I ever want to do is hurt you.” “I’m such a fool,” I whisper. “I don’t even know why I’m crying.”
you feel as if you’re always swimming against the tide.”
I’m so very tired of swimming.
Most of the time I feel like the tide is going to pull me under,
that I don’t think there will ever be a time when I don’t have feelings for this man.
Whatever he’s about to say, I think it’s something I’m going to remember forever.
This is the only time we will ever kiss each other.
all of his attention focused on our once-in-a-lifetime kiss.
“Let’s be kind to each other about this,”
“We both know it shouldn’t have happened, but it doesn’t have to mean anything, and it doesn’t need to change anything.”
real life, where hearts get kicked and bruised and broken, but somehow they still keep beating.
what happened felt more personal than that, a few minutes of madness that will weigh heavily on both of our consciences.
“I feel like the world’s biggest shit, Lu. I don’t know how to get past it.”
I don’t know how to help him. What am I supposed to say, that it gets easier?
yet it’s freeing too, because it’s as if he’s rubber-stamped the fact that I need to let it go now.
“It was a really awful mistake, Jack,”
“More my fault than yours, if it helps.”
“Don’t you dare do that to yourself. I’m the one who’s been unfaithful here.”
However unfaithful you feel, trust me, I’m up there with you on the feeling lousy scale.”
We were both wrong.”
“Do you know what I hate most of all about what happened,
“I hate that I can’t forget it,”
“It wasn’t supposed to mean anything. Was it?”
“Did it…did it mean anythi...
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we stopped and we both knew it was awful, and it’s done now and it can’t be undone.
God knows I’m more sorry than I’ve ever been about anything in my life, and it’ll never, ever happen again.
