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They say you should marry someone who can make you laugh. I say you should marry someone who shares your preference when it comes to blinds and curtains. There was nothing that could make us fight quicker.
I had everything I wanted, but somehow it all felt a bit lackluster. A dream is its shiniest when it’s still inside your head.
That’s the burden parents face, isn’t it? When we’re with them, we take it all for granted. We wish for time away. We wish for a moment of peace. Then, as soon as we’re away, supposed to be enjoying our peace, we wish to be right in the middle of it all again. Childhood is both very long and very short and, as parents, there’s nothing we’re more aware of than that.
In the end, that character flaw—the inability to make a decision on the people in my life—cost me everything. And it was all my fault.
You don’t have to be the one throwing the flames in order to help spread the fire.”
You can’t trick your heart. You can’t convince it or reason with it or bribe it. It is what it is and we are what we are, and at the end of the day, the only reason we go through all we do is so that we can be happy, right?
Just stop worrying. Stop thinking. And let yourself feel.
What do you want, Cait? Underneath everything you think you should want, everything you’ll permit yourself to want, what is it you actually want?”
Only two people knew what I’d done—me and her. And we’d both take that secret to the grave.
“There is. And it’s this: I know you’re hurt. I know I’m the one who caused it. I get it, okay? I hate what went down and how it did, but I don’t regret kissing you. Not the first time or this one. I don’t regret the truth coming out. I don’t regret telling you how I feel about you.”
The heart wants what it wants, Cait. Sometimes you just have to give in to it and let the world burn around you.”
My entire world had gone up in flames, and I was still holding the match.
A time before cell phones gained popularity, back when digital cameras were all the rage.
“I don’t hate the ocean, but I don’t understand people’s desire to swim in it. It’s filled with urine and bodies and dead animals and garbage and god knows what else. Not to mention there are literally animals in there that will kill you, and you won’t see them coming, and if they don’t, a tide could come in and sweep you under without any warning. It’s maddening to me how people can consider
any part of it relaxing.”
Everything is hanging by a thread every day. A single move, a single choice, can change the course of your life completely.
