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Mom should have drowned you the minute you started screaming at your baptism because it’s proof you’re inherently E V I L.
“What do you think I am, a monster? Course there aren’t any books in here. This bag is Kate Spade.”
She’s a second look kind of girl. The first look at her is for simple appreciation for the stunner she is. The second look is a realization of what an idiot you were for not looking longer the first time around.
give anyone the whole map, and only trust a few with directions.
The Lort is testing me in a big, big, bat way. I look up to the sky. “Why? I’ve been so good. I’ve been going to church. I only showed up tipsy that one time.”
And I hope like hell for ghost pains one day. It’ll mean I’ve loved someone hard and finally done some good living.”
Everyone should do something bat shit crazy once in a while, it’s good for the soul.
Devin?” “Yes, girl?” “Why don’t we eat more Jell-O together?”
“Hang in there, okay?” “I love your hands on my face.” “Listen to me, Houseman. We ate too much. We are Snoop Dogg at the Chronic Olympics high. We have an Uber coming in five minutes. I need you to find your feet.” “I dunno that’s plauisbble.”
“Dave in the white Taurus, do you believe in Doritos?”
Only you would use enough ingenuity to come to my rescue and save me with a tampon.”
I lean down and kiss her cheek before slowly pulling away. Her eyes widen before she smiles. “What was that for?” “Existing.”
If he’s paying attention to the right things, you’ll rarely ever have to give directions.
Don’t go trying to find the pretty in ugly people. That’s like saving your sunshine for shit. Even in better light, it’s still a glowing turd.
“She’s my favorite person in the world, and I can’t imagine not knowing her. I can’t imagine having the chance to know her and throwing it away.”
“She said not to ever ruin a kid’s magic. There’s not enough of it in the world anymore.”
“Jesus must have been celebrating his birthday really big last night because he sure as hell didn’t take the wheel the two thousand times I screamed his name!”
“You, sir, have single-handedly brought magic back into my life.”
but people like you are the best example of the good kind of chaos. You thrive in the random. You shake things up and make whatever you have going work for you. Screw the planning and just go with your gut. Stumble your way through, wing it, and do whatever makes you happy.”
‘em enough to let them break your heart but learn enough so they don’t break your spirit.
only one you should ever try and prove yourself to, is the person you were the year before.
“You’ll wait for me?” “I waited for the wrong girl for years. I think I can handle waiting a few months for the right one.”
grandfather told me once we were moving north, so I pulled out a map and asked him, ‘Where in Texas is that?’
Years from now, when we tell our story, I know my version. It will be about a young girl who went from hopeful to a hopeless romantic in a few notes that only her Prince Charming could play. He didn’t show up on a white horse declaring that she hops on before he gallops away. No, this prince got off his horse, fell on his ass, and stumbled in the mud with her until she could mount her own stallion. And then, in one last act of bravery, he gently trotted beside her into the unknown.
