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“You’re so laid back, you’re practically horizontal.”
It’s a marvel how much we can overlook for the sake of love.”
He’d heard every word I’d said, stored it all in his dumb puppy brain, and drew it up with the ease of a long-practiced artist.
I’ve seen enough of love to know if you hold out, it’ll find you whether you want it to or not.”
“I like to think we accept the love we think we deserve, like the old adage says. If you meet as equals, there’s nothing to hide. And if you’re so certain everyone’s out to hurt you, you’ll probably end up hurt.”
Somehow it was a comfort, to know that even when I was at my biggest and loudest and most barkey, he could handle it. Handle me.
“Nature’s a curious thing. Sometimes it disguises one thing as another, hides its nature to protect it.”
We were alone, which made me uncomfortable. Not because I was afraid of him, but because I could see the line and exactly when and how I might cross it, especially with him looking like he cared so much.
That kiss was a meeting, a linking of self, a connection of body and of hearts. It was chemistry, alive and deep, the programming unbreakable. And I should have been afraid of it. Stupidly, I wasn’t.
She was beautiful because she was mine. In that moment, the woman who gave nothing gave herself to me.
For the first time in my life, I wished I was something else. Something more. Ambitious and successful and rich. Powerful. I wished I was the kind of man Lila wouldn’t just fuck. I wished I was the kind of man she’d keep.
Living in the moment means damning the consequences. It’s about choosing what you want instead of what’s safe.”
I tried to be mad, tried to remember all the ways she’d hurt me, all the reasons why we couldn’t. Why we shouldn’t. But I couldn’t think of a single one.
love doesn’t care where you come from, only who you are.
There was something to be said for a few minutes of self-care and a little mascara.
“Love doesn’t wonder. It doesn’t question. It trusts with its whole self, as I should have. And when I looked past the things I feared, I uncovered the truth—I was afraid, and I was a fool. Can you forgive me for my pride? Can you absolve me for all the ways I hurt you? Because of all the things I want, your happiness is first and always.”
