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Eight thousand nerves in the clitoris and still not as sensitive as a white man not getting his way.”
I’d had chemistry with other women, but I’d never experienced animal magnetism before. It’s the kind of thing that’s unmistakable when it’s happening—and it happened with her.
Like my body was looking for her even though I didn’t know where she was. It was a shift in gravity.
The sex was unreal. It was like finding the perfect dance partner and then only getting better because now you were practicing together.
I turned him on. He was ravenous for me.
There was something infinitely sexy about a man who could build things. And cook things.
Sometimes what you have to give is enough. Even if it’s a rock instead of a diamond.”
This gesture made me grateful in a way I couldn’t explain. She was giving me more of herself, even if it was just a peek into a moment of her day.
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.”
“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. I loved it. I loved it more than I’d ever loved anything. It wasn’t flashy. It cost him nothing but his time—but that was the gift.
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.
I didn’t like that others had to take care of me. I wanted to know how to take care of myself. I wanted to pull my weight and learn to be self-reliant so that when I did depend on someone, it was by choice and not necessity. And it was Daniel who was teaching me how.
She felt like the sun. Like she was the reason for everything. Like I’d always been waiting for her to get closer and bring me to life.
“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.
There’s something more final than forever. It’s never. Never is infinite.
