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

by Abby Jimenez

“Grace costs you nothing.

Sometimes what you have to give is enough. Even if it’s a rock instead of a diamond.”

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.

He saw me. And I believed him when he said he wouldn’t let me drown.

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.

“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 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.

All we had was our love for each other. That’s all we had. None of the other parts worked or fit or made sense. But I didn’t need it to make sense, because for me the love was everything, it was all I needed.

There’s something more final than forever. It’s never. Never is infinite.

Because sometimes family isn’t what you’re born into. Sometimes family is found.