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To those who love whiskey and sunshine, long summer days and front porch sittin’, dips in the river and never taking life too seriously – this one’s for you.
my heart was trained to love whiskey long before it ever learned how to love a woman.
“And we have an understanding. She wants to be held at night, and I want to be ridden like a rodeo bull.”
It means, I know you don’t give a rat’s ass what my name is and you’ll forget it as soon as you walk out of this distillery and back into your little silver-spoon world.
“Well, this isn’t shooting whiskey. It’s Tennessee Sippin’ Whiskey,”
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.
“Go ahead and say it louder, princess,” I threw behind me. “You’d be in just as much shit as I would.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If you were mine, Ruby Grace, your dreams wouldn’t come second to anything.”
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’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.”
If he was a dream, I would sleep, just so I could keep him a little longer. I’d sleep, and maybe — just maybe — I’d wake on a day where I got to keep him forever.
“She also shouldn’t be marrying that no-good, two-timing prissy son of a dirty politician.”
“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.”
