Hands Down

by Mariana Zapata

But if every person weighed their dream against someone else’s, nobody would ever dream at all.

“Didn’t you hear what I said? Worryin’ about you is like… lovin’ the goddamn sun on my face, kiddo. Like breathin’. It’s never not gonna happen.”

“You can’t help who you love sometimes, even if you know that maybe you shouldn’t or that maybe it’s going to hurt.”

“My whole life, I’ve felt like I was missin’ somethin’, tryin’ to find somethin’. I don’t know how to explain it, and now, it feels like I found it, Boog. It was right in front of my damn face all along.”

“Did you steal my damn heart, run off with it, and say I’ll see ya later? ’Cause the answer to that is yes.”

Lovin’ you is the easiest thing I’ve ever done, and it’s the easiest thing I’m ever gonna do. I just know it.”