Franco (Bright Side, #3)

by Kim Holden

He was a hollowed-out shell going through the motions for months and months.

They're both insanely nice and generous, but while Gus does it with an easy, it's-who-I-am attitude, Jamie is more naïve, like a baby animal that you want to protect from the fierce, vicious world outside for fear he'll get eaten alive.

there aren't that many people you meet who are instantaneously woven into the fabric of your life like they were always meant to be there.

There are some people in life that you can vent to, or pour out sadness to, or voice frustration to, and they readily and willingly absorb it for the sole purpose of ridding you of it. They're the same people who can immediately replace that negativity with their light. Their presence gives you the power to purge the bad and embrace the good. It's rare. I've only known a few people in my life who are that way.

Some people skim life and some people read so closely they see the things others don't.

That's where the beauty lies, in between the lines, in the details. The story within the story.