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“This is for falling in love with the right girl at the wrong time, and still fucking paying for it,” he says quietly, looking at me.
“You goddamn know Presley was never in the race.” Joe shuts me up with a dirty, violent kiss. “As long as you have breath in you, no one else stands a chance.”
You should’ve gone after your heart, not your fears.”
I’m so sorry my guilt stood in the way of doing the right thing. I promise you, it’s over now. I’ll be good to everyone who is still alive and I love. Everyone.”
“It’s hard to answer that question,” she says. “Some days it is bearable. Some days it is not. The one thing both days have in common is that we can’t control them.”
“To being a little less fucked up than we were at the beginning of the year.”
“There’s no way around it, Ever. If you want to be happy—you have to take chances. You have to open yourself up to getting hurt.” “I’m scared to make a choice.” My voice cracks as I round the car into my neighborhood. “You know what’s scarier?” she asks. “Not making one at all.”
Because I’m in love with you, but I’m too scared to be with you. Too scared to even tell you. This is the same thing as when I was eighteen all over again. Only now I’ve lost so much; I can’t even begin to imagine what it would feel like to lose you too.
“I can’t do this anymore, Joe. I can’t pretend that I’m your friend. It hurts too much. I like you.” I love you. “And I know we can’t be together. I respect that. Honestly, I don’t even know if it’s right for us. To be a couple after everything that went down. But I know if I keep in touch, it’s going to keep hurting, and I will never get over you. I will never move on. I will never have a husband, and children, and a white picket fence, and an ever after. Right now, you hold my happiness in your hand. I have to turn my back on this happiness and find another.”
“Because I didn’t want to be your coping mechanism. Your rebound. Your designated mistake after going through something traumatic.
But see, forgiving people who hurt us is not about those people at all. It is about choosing to move on with our lives. Letting go of the grudges. Healing without depending on someone else’s journey.
