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You can only bend so much before you break, and I was constantly reaching down, picking up the pieces and scrambling like mad to put them back together.
But you know what they say: fall seven times, get up
eight. It wasn’t until I realized I was clinging onto nothing that I was able to get back up.
Sometimes remembering how small you are in the grand scheme of things helps you not be
such an asshole.”
who knows
That’s the thing about books. Reading is an intimate process, as people and places take on those you’re familiar with. And half the time I don’t even realize it, and it just happens.
“The last few years haven’t been easy on you. But not once have you given those girls anything but a stable, loving home, and all the security they need.”
“If you get into another relationship, those girls need a role model. They need to see a man who treats their mother like the wonderful soul she is.”
“Sometimes things have to fall apart to be put back together. Your pieces weren’t in the right order and were all jumbled up inside.
“Life isn’t a fairytale. Life isn’t a book. Life isn’t a movie. There is no formula you have to follow in order to find happiness.
“You are the only one I want to kiss. The only one I want to fuck. The only one I want to be with. There is no one else.”
