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“Don't count me out just yet, Mark. Now that I know you love me the same way I love you, there just might be a chance for the two of us someday soon.”
real man looks at his family and sees the ones who need him most and works everyday to be worthy of them.
“So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard, and we're gonna have to work at this every day. But I wanna do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day.”
“Goodnight, beautiful. I love you.” His lips touched mine for a split second but then he pulled away and walked down the hall without looking back. I watched him until he walked out onto the landing, and right before the door clicked shut, I heard his laughter booming out in the stairwell. “That son of a bitch.”
“Vampires are supposed to burst into flames in sunlight, Lake.” Mark
There’s not enough alcohol in the world that could make me forget being with you.” Mark
“Oh, I remember everything. There’s not enough alcohol in the world that could make me forget being with you.”
“You should learn to give and be flexible. It’s not like fighting with your brothers, Lake. They’re going to be your brothers no matter what. When you’re fighting with Mark, you’re gambling with your forever that isn’t promised. That takes work.”
“You want him to do better; he doesn’t need to do anything but look both ways when he crosses the street, watch his cholesterol, pay his taxes, and die. He has to want it as much as you do for this to work.”
“I want him to talk things over with me instead of just making a rule and expecting me to follow it.” “I’ll be damned! She can learn,” Lori said, her voice dripping with sarcasm. “Now we’ll see if he can do the same.”
understand,” I assured him as I slowly walked around the truck. “I’m sorry, Mark. I knew I wasn’t going to visit Danny today, but I didn’t tell you because
was pissed off. If I’d just talked to you . . .”
wasn’t trying to control you, Lake. I said all the wrong things and didn’t give you a chance. I treated you like a child, and while I shouldn’t have done that, this is not how I needed to learn that lesson. The last few hours . . . I don’t know how to put what I’m feeling into words.” “I’m so sorry, Mark,” I whispered as I fit myself against his chest and wrapped my arms around his waist. “I hate that I worried you, and I’m sorry we didn’t talk things out. I shouldn’t have left everything up in the air the way I did.” “We have to do better, Lake,” Mark urged me quietly as he fina...
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interrupted him, my voice frantic, “Don’t say it. Don’t give up on me, Mark. We can work together and fix it. Every couple fights, we just have to figure out how to do it productively.” “I’m not sure that’s a thing, babe.” “It is. I talked to Lori about it. We have to get to know each other, even the ugly parts. We can learn from this. I learned that I need to tell you what I’m feeling, and I can’t let the way you say things send me into ...
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As he slowly walked toward me, he sang the song “I Want To Grow Old With You.” He stopped about six feet in front of me as the lyrics ended and then he went down on one knee and held a hand out toward me as he asked, “Lake Donovan, will you marry me?” I let go of the kids’ hands and rushed toward Mark as he stood. I threw myself into his arms as I screamed, “Yes!”
“I love you, Lake Donovan. I’m going to spend the next 50 or so years making sure that the movies you watch don’t even compare to the love and happiness I show you every single day.” “I love you too!”
