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Pain reminds me I’m alive, and I no longer wish to avoid it.
“Maybe not all loves are supposed to? Maybe some are meant to end, teaching us lessons about ourselves and life.”
“If you haven’t realized how well I know you, then you’ve been pretending for a while.”
“Just because people don’t last forever doesn’t mean the feelings don’t.”
“Our words are weapons, and our actions are grenades, and we keep aiming them at each other. I don’t want to hurt you, and I can’t take being hurt by you, so one of us just has to pull the pin and let it blow up before it takes us both down.”
“We just crossed the mother fucking Rubicon. Everything’s changed.” I slide my fingers across her wet lips. “Everything.”
“Zenobia?” “A woman who defied all odds and became a warrior queen
“I need you. I need you to stay here and have some fucking self-preservation. I need you in ways I’ve never needed anyone—in ways that scare the shit out of me. I need you because I don’t feel like myself without you.”
“I want you to consume me,”
“Astra indlinant, sed non obligant.”
“I know this is tough to imagine, but not all of us speak Latin.”
His lips tip higher. “It translates to the stars incline us, t...
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“We have our own free will. That no star or god or any other power can force us to do anything.”
I worry about that with you because I know you’d ruin me.” “That doesn’t scare you now?” “It scares me more to be away from you. To possibly lose you.”
“You make me want to fix the whole damn world.”
“Being a girl sucks,” she says, a dry chuckle follows her words. “There’s this impossible balance we’re all working to find: being tough without being too masculine, being smart without being arrogant, being kind without being a pushover, being beautiful without being prissy, being successful without being too informal. It’s this massive scale that is constantly in flux, and the joke is on us because everyone is judging us—constantly—and more often than not, we’re our own toughest critic.”
understand this. I’m not fucking with you when I tell you I want to be the guy who’s good enough. I want to be the guy you want, and I’m not going to try to fuck that up.
I can promise you this, I will try my absolute damndest to not fuck things up. I’ll be honest with you, and I sure as shit won’t cheat on you.”
“I’m in this. I’m all in, and I know if I’d just told you how I felt after your accident, this would be easier, but I’ll do this. I’ll pull your weight and mine until you’re ready.”
“I plan to corrupt you. Dirty your thoughts so everything you think and hear reminds you of sex.”
She smells like summer and Christmas morning and fresh blueberry pie—all my favorite things in one,
I’d like to introduce you to my girlfriend, Raegan Lawson.
The wins, the losses, my impending future, and the choices that I’ve resented for so long. It doesn’t matter because while I love the game, the adrenaline, and the rush I get each time I step out onto the field, it still pales in comparison to what I feel for her. I would live in a one-bedroom shack as long as she was there with me.
the only thing I feel passionate about right now is her. She makes me feel alive. She makes me feel whole.”
“I love her.”
I will do anything—everything—to make sure you’re safe and that you’re happy and feel heard—feel seen because I see you, Raegan Lawson. I see every part of you, and I love you.”
I want you to consume me.”
“I don’t just want to consume you, I want to own you—possess every part of you. Make your heart beat like mine does for you.” “It already does.”
