The Things We Leave Unfinished
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The blood, the sweat, and the tears that went into it? Those were all yours, and now your future is yours to do whatever you want with it. Go back to sculpting. Blow some glass. Be happy.”
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There were now two eras in her life—before Jameson, and now.
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I didn’t know how long I stood there, watching a door I knew from experience would only open again when it was convenient for her.
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The grandfather clock ticked steadily from the living room, somehow steadying my heartbeat. It was a hundred-year-old pacemaker.
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I see the way he looks at her, like she’s the reason the seasons change and the sun rises until they’re a hundred and one years old.”
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“Every night of our lives will be our honeymoon.”
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I’m not sure I’ll ever have a heart to give. Seems safer to read about love in novels than it is to honestly experience it.”
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“There’s a warning, a sound your heart makes the first time it realizes it’s no longer safe with the person you trusted.”
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I can’t help but feel like I’m chasing butterflies, always thinking one is prettier, and never catching one because I can’t commit to the single chase.”
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Her mind, her compassion, her strength, her grace and grit—I loved everything about her. But I also knew she wasn’t ready for my love.
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Our fates are intertwined, for I cannot exist in a world where you do not.
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Do not settle for the love that hones your edges and turns you brittle and cold,