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It was like trying to get out of a full-body compression sock while being timed for speed.
Spanx are the devil
I looked back at Daniel, and he shrugged. “I’m not an asshole. It’s my favorite thing about myself.” I felt my smile reach my eyes. He was funny.
😍
I felt a hand on my arm. “Don’t let them decide the life you’re going to live. You only get one.”
Bri shook her head with a grin. “Look at that man-trum. Eight thousand nerves in the clitoris and still not as sensitive as a white man not getting his way.” She beamed at me. “I like this new you.”
“Grace costs you nothing. My grandma used to say it. She especially liked to say it to herself when I was being a little shit.”
I use this phrase all the time now. ❤️
His heart was thudding against my bare breast like a jackhammer. “Fuck…” he breathed. “You’re gonna give me a heart attack.” “Well, you seem like a decent fellow. I’d hate to kill you.” He laughed so hard into my neck, I broke into giggles.
Now that is some intense sex!
Me: You deserved asshole tax. Trust me. And then I paused, thinking about what I wanted to say. Me: Know your worth, Daniel. I wish it had always been as easy to know mine.
😢
Sometimes what you have to give is enough. Even if it’s a rock instead of a diamond.”
He started to pull away, but then seemed to decide he wasn’t done, and he kissed me again. Ugh, this boy. I wanted to climb into him, merge with his body.
💞
She bit her lip. “How do you do that?” she breathed. “Do what?” I asked, my voice husky. “Know how to touch me.” “I pay attention to you,” I said, kissing her collarbone gently. “How you feel matters to me.”
Gah. 💥💥
“Let me guess. You’re taking a top-down shot, using the flash, standing in your shitty garage bathroom, you can see your feet in the picture and you’re wearing socks.” I looked down. Shit. I heard his engine turn over. “That’s what I thought.
I never knew taking a good dick pic could be so hard. Pun intended. 😈
Then I sighed. “Why is everything so hard?” “Because you have too many fucks to give.” “Ha-ha.” “No, I’m serious. Give up some of your fucks and see how much easier things are. You’re just spending all your time trying to please everyone else, and it’s making you miserable.”
💯
He pulled out something and put it in my palm. It was a rock about the size of a walnut, smooth and gray. “It’s shaped like a heart,” he said. “Took me two hours to find it.” My heart disintegrated. It broke from the inside out and crumbled in my chest.
Penguin stone.
When I didn’t say anything, he spoke. “I’m sorry. It’s dumb. I thought you might—” “I love it so much. I love it so much I don’t even know what to say.” I blinked up at him with tears in my eyes. He looked almost hopeful. “You like it? Really?” “I love it. Thank you.” This gentle, thoughtful, sweet boy.
❤️❤️❤️❤️
It’s amazing how someone can touch you, even if you only know them for a moment in time. How they can change you, alter you indelibly.
“Have you ever seen anything so perfectly beautiful?” I breathed. I turned to Daniel. But he wasn’t watching the petals anymore. He was looking at me. “Yes…” he said quietly, holding my eyes. “You.” Then he slipped warm hands onto my cheeks, and in front of the moon and the heavens and the magic that was swirling around us, he kissed me. The world stopped turning.
🥰🥰🥰🥰
I held her eyes. “I believe you. I can handle anything you need to tell me. You don’t need to protect me from the truth and I’m here to help you in any way I can. It’s not your fault. And you don’t deserve it.” I saw the words crash over her. Her chin quivered.
I wish people knew when to say this.
“I love you,” he whispered. “We are together. This isn’t over. And even if you leave, it won’t be over because you’ll take the love with you and it’ll bring you back.”
😭😭😭
Love follows you. It goes where you go. It doesn’t know about social divides or distance or common sense. It doesn’t even stop when the person you love dies. It does what it wants.
😢😢😢
I missed her so much it was physically painful. It was a form of grief. A withdrawal. Starvation. It was unnatural. Because I wasn’t supposed to be without her. My eyes started to tear up. There’s something more final than forever. It’s never. Never is infinite.
😭😭😭😭 This book wrecks me every time.
Hot tears slid down my cheeks. “The world is ending, Alexis. That’s what this feels like. So come with me now.” She started sobbing softly in the background, and I had to put my phone on mute so she wouldn’t hear me cry.
😭😭😭 every. Time.
It was incredible how whole I felt. How he completed the final piece in my mosaic. I would have never been right without him. Even if I’d never met him or ever knew who he was.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
She smiled and I looked into her eyes and I saw everything. The rest of my life. I saw children and grandchildren and rocking chairs on the back porch of the house overlooking the river and two old people, dying on the same day because the world would never be cruel enough to make either one of us exist without the other.
"...dying on the same day because the world would never be cruel enough to make either one of us exist without the other." This is such a profound statement...makes me cry every time. 😢😍
