Ever After Always (Bergman Brothers, #3)

by Chloe Liese

I’m an empowered, no-nonsense woman who feels all her feelings and battles the cultural pressure to contain them, to have my emotional shit in order. Even when all I want to do sometimes is indulge in a teary explosion of hugging my condiment-named cats while cry-singing along to my nineties emo playlist.

The less you demand of something, the less it gives back, the weaker it becomes, until one day it’s a shadow of itself.

“In the words of the inimitable Lisa Kleypas, ‘Marriage isn’t the end of the story, it’s the beginning. And it demands the effort of both partners to make a success of it.’”

They want apologies to wipe away the pain. But pain takes time to heal. You can forgive and hurt as you recover from the wound.

He’s shown me strength lies in how openly you bare your heart, not how deeply you guard it.

Love’s true test, the measure of its strength, is its bravery to be honest, its willingness to face the hardest moments and say, Even though there’s nothing to be done, at least I have you.