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my heart was trained to love whiskey long before it ever learned how to love a woman.
She laughed the way the wind blew — softly, and then all at once, without an ounce of shame for how that sound might permanently shift the atmosphere around it.
“If you were mine, Ruby Grace, your dreams wouldn’t come second to anything.”
He was a blade, and I knew I needed to stay away or I’d end up shredded.
And I just sat there, hands on the steering wheel, eyes on my passenger seat, and heart somewhere down the road with a girl who didn’t even realize she had it.
“You never have to apologize for coming to me. Ever. No matter what.”
There isn’t a man alive who could be loved by you and not kick himself every single day for fucking it up.”
You’re not meant to be a puppet in some man’s sideshow, Ruby Grace. You’re meant to be his entire world.”
“No, you see me with your soul.” She swallowed, eyes flicking up to mine before they fell back to my mouth. “And I feel you with mine.”
It’s just me. It’s just us.”
“Selfish. What a silly word. Should you give to the ones you love? Absolutely. But should you lose yourself in order to better their lives at the expense of your own? Never.”
