Landon & Shay: Part One (L&S Duet, #1)

by Brittainy C. Cherry

When you stopped allowing toxins into your system, it meant getting rid of certain types of people in your life, too. Addictions didn’t only come in the form of alcohol or narcotics. Some of the worst addictions in one’s life could be the people allowed into it. I’d learned to be very selective about who I allowed into my world. It turned out, you didn’t need a big circle of people to be content. You simply needed the right people.

She didn’t have to pretend to be okay with me. She didn’t have to lie and say everything was fine when it was clear she was in the middle of one of the hardest storms of her life.

Her breaking down didn’t mean she wasn’t strong. Sometimes the strongest thing a person could ever do was fall apart. It took real strength to become that vulnerable.

Place your feet on the ground and make peace with your demons. Stop fighting them and hold them. You’re not broken; you’re just complex. And the most beautiful things in the world have the most complex heartbeats.”