Two Wrongs Make a Right (The Wilmot Sisters #1)

by Chloe Liese

For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

“James. If you were any more of a goat, you’d be mountain bounding as we speak.”

“You’ve found me a sexual partner who wants to do the emotionless mattress merengue with frequent reckless abandon?”

People shouldn’t take on something to love and expect it to be convenient for them. You have to meet a living creature where they are, and love them for who they are, not who you want them to be.”

says, brightening, her feet wedging between mine under the table. “I was hooked. How original and singular each person is. The parts of our bodies that diet culture and photoshopping tell us we should try to erase and hide—human ‘imperfection’—they were what I thought, and still do think, make us works of art. Stretch marks. Wrinkles. Freckles and fine lines and rolls and curves. I realized I wanted to make art celebrating that, defending that belief.”

“I realized it’s even more powerful,” she continues, “when I can show the sensuality of those so-called imperfections. How we can appreciate ourselves and desire each other not when we’re perfect but when we’re us. So I started drawing, then painting, lovers together, individuals loving themselves. That was my art career before the Edgy Envelope—commissions and selling paintings through exhibits.”