Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

by Abby Jimenez

“I’m not an asshole. It’s my favorite thing about myself.”

“When you come down—no matter what you come down for—I’m going to make a big deal over it. Because it is a big deal.

“We’re going to eat, and we’re going to hang out. And I’m going to put effort into that because you’re putting in effort to be here. And it’s going to be like that every time. Okay?”

“But…how do you keep up with people if you don’t do social media?” “I call them.”

He was closing open tabs on a laptop in my brain one at a time until he was the only thing on the screen.

“I know it hurts,” I said. “But just think, now you’ll know what it feels like for a man with a cold.” Jessica’s favorite delivery line.

“So you don’t know how to peel potatoes, but you can deliver a baby?”

Wakan and Daniel were planted inside of me and they were growing there, like a garden bursting into life. Roots plunging and anchoring me, vines twisting and flowers pushing from the earth and blooming in my soul, filling me up. And I never wanted to leave.

“What I mean is you have been conditioned your entire life to live for everyone else. To do what’s expected of you, to blindly serve.