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Dolly Parton quote, ‘don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.’
I’d never envied a musical instrument before, but as I watched her fingers move smoothly over the fretboard, I knew I’d let this woman play me any way she wanted to.
If I were your husband, I never would have let you stop, but then again, I never would have let you go.”
“Liv, you deserve to be so much more than in the background of someone else’s story. You deserve to be center stage.”
that’s the way it is sometimes, right? What we’re good at and what we’re passionate about aren’t always the same things.”
“He encourages you to do the things you love instead of shoving them out of sight like they’re something to be ashamed of.
Love isn’t about choosing who you think won’t hurt you. It’s about choosing who’s worth hurting for.
“Can I hold your hand? Will you let me walk you to your door? I know we just met, and it's 3 am, but all I want is more.” I wiped at the tears that fell unchecked down my cheeks as he continued to sing. “I want to be the man who is better than every other man that came before. So, give me a chance. May I have this dance? Baby, will you let me love you more?”
As I gazed into her emerald eyes, I knew I could search the world over and never find a woman more perfect for me than her.
“Fuck me. I guess I’m nervous.” “Well, I’m trying to fuck you, but you won’t stop talking.”
“You wreck me, Olivia Sinclair.” He crashed his lips into mine. “You absolutely wreck me.” The truth was, he wrecked me too.
Liv had given me the greatest gift of all. She’d given me a person to belong to, something worth missing. The least I could do was spend my life making her happy.
“I love the smell of Target. Smells like everything I never knew I needed.”
The thing I remember being so painful about grief was that for so long, it felt like my entire world stopped, but everyone around me kept going on as though nothing even happened. Holidays still came and went, and the days passed like normal when it was anything but.”
