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What’s your favorite thing about being married to me?” He smirked. “That you have sex with me every day.”
“We talked about it, but I don’t remember agreeing with you.”
I hated being new. Some people enjoyed the rush of the first day of school or a new job, but not me.
twitterpated teenagers.
Think it. Don’t speak it.”
‘If you want to go swimming, you get out of the boat. Same is true with flying. You have to get out of the plane.’
“You should know that I’m no good at sharing pizza,” she declared. “You’ll have to get your own.”
They talked, they knew about each other’s days, but they were also content to just be with one another.
“Practice makes progress.” I liked that. Progress. Not perfect.
Find the balance between pushover and asshole.
just because you find yourself attracted to another man doesn’t mean you’ll forget Jamie. It just means you’re letting him go.
Guilt was a heavy beast. It settled like a dead weight in my chest.
even good cops had blind spots,
“No matter what new rides they come up with, The Zipper always seems to ring my bell like no other.”
“You don’t ever need to keep things from me because you’re worried I’ll be sad. I’m sad every day. I’ve lost a lot of people in my life—it comes with age.”
The trick is learning to let the happy outweigh the sad.”
even love wasn’t strong enough to mend some wounds.
When would I find the strength to put the pain in the past and stop letting it tarnish the present?
“Crying doesn’t make you weak, Poppy. Sometimes, it takes more strength to let go than it does to keep it all inside.”
Maybe I didn’t have to be strong enough to banish the pain away all by myself. Maybe being strong meant learning to lean on those who would take some of the pain away.
“Were your parents pissed?” “Worse,” I sighed. “They were disappointed.”
He had her past. I was taking her future.
