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my heart was trained to love whiskey long before it ever learned how to love a woman.
“Anyone can lead an ordinary life, child,” she’d said to me one lazy afternoon. “But the best adventures are reserved for the ones brave enough to be extraordinary.”
Though she’d never physically traveled, her imagination wandered all the time, and she loved to escape into movies and books, to live the lives of spies and queens and young college students.
“Every experience is an opportunity, no matter how trivial it may seem. Some of my best ideas and most memorable achievements began from a seemingly ordinary day.”
I just needed to survive.
He was a lightning storm, fun to watch from afar but dangerous to dance with.
He was both welcoming and threatening all at once, and I found myself hating him before I even had reason to.
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.”
I didn’t realize how much a person could feel like home.
