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Appreciate the kindness but never let yourself rely on it because it will likely disappear one day.
Anger. It says a lot about you that you’re willing to look straight at it. Most people ignore the rage. They look away as it festers. You want to let it out. That’s the first step to forgiveness in my mind.” How did he see me so clearly after knowing me for such a short period of time? No beating from my father had ever hurt as much as my mother walking away, knowing what her husband was capable of. “I want to let it go. I know it’s eating me up inside. I don’t want to turn bitter. I don’t want to be him.”
“It’s life, Beckett. We don’t have control over what happens to us, only how we react to it.”
“Any time you start to believe those lies, you come to me. I’ll tell you the truth.”
“Anytime you start taking on the weight of the world, you come to me. I’ll remind you to set it down.”
I was so used to needing to get something perfect on the first try, but Beckett made me realize that it was impossible to do that and live life to the fullest. I would stumble along the way. I’d just have to pick myself up and start again.
“Beauty in the strength that carried you through. Beauty in how you refused to be broken. Beauty that you never let yourself become cruel like him. Addie, there isn’t a thing about you that isn’t beautiful.”
“Addie, you could never be just any other woman to me. You’ve been more since the moment I laid eyes on you. Something tugged at me, making me want to lean a little closer. You wove a spell around me, and you didn’t even know it.” His thumb caught the edge of my lip. “Why would you want to settle for normal when you’re extraordinary? Everything around you is gray, and yet you’re cast in every color I could ever imagine.”
“Life is full of pain. We’ll hurt each other. But I trust us both to make it right when that happens. I trust that we’ll learn and grow and do better next time.”
“He’s your launchpad.” I looked at Hadley in question. “He’s the place you always come back to. But he also sends you out into the universe.”
