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The universe had a sense of humor, all right, and it was a shitty one.
She ignored me. “You ever hear the saying, the bigger the ego, the smaller the penis?” she asked Beanie. “Applies to him.” “Oh. That sucks.” Beanie glanced at me with sympathy. “Sorry, dude.”
I groaned. She tasted even better down here. Most women thought men wanted them to taste like berries or lavender or whatever, but if we were eating pussy, we wanted to taste pussy. That was the whole fucking point.
Note taken
When Jules continued to hesitate, I added, “There’ll be free food.” A beat passed before she said, “I could make it work.”
Jules has her priorities straight
It was a picnic, for God’s sake. I only agreed to come because there was free food, and I never turned down free food. It wasn’t like it was a real date.
“Everyone changes. Without change, we might as well be dead.”
“The worst part is, I didn’t think I would feel like...this.” She gestured at herself. “My mom and I didn’t part on good terms, to say the least. For years, I was so angry at her for what she did. I thought I would be relieved when she died, but I…” She sucked in a sharp inhale. “I don’t know. I don’t know how I feel. Sad. Angry. Ashamed. Regretful. And yes, a little relieved.” Her knuckles whitened around her mug. “Is that terrible of me?” “It sounds like you had a complicated relationship with your mother, and it’s normal to feel all those things. Even relief.”
Reminds me of !y relationship with my dad and how when he died, I felt angry at him because I wanted closure and ill never haveitt
Our first impressions stick with us the longest, but contrary to popular opinion, some people do change. The only problem is, they change faster than our prejudices do.
“The monsters in our imagination are often worse than those in reality.”
I once read somewhere that the opposite of love wasn’t hate, it was indifference. The flames of hate and passion burned in equal measure.
“Sometimes, people change. And sometimes, they meet people who make them want to change.”
Because even though pain hurt like a motherfucker, it proved you were still alive, and it was only after it faded that you could finally heal.
