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Everyone was alive and breathing. Everyone but me. I was just pretending.
But part of me had died in that ditch that night, and what was left didn’t seem like it was worth fighting for.
But Nash struck me as the settling-down type, and I was allergic to relationships.
“Small towns are where busy professional women get seduced by a rough-around-the-edges local business owner. Ooh! Or a sheriff. Have you met the sheriff yet?”
“You know what no one tells you about standing in the middle of a pissing contest?” Cherry said to me with a toss of her blond curls.
“What’s that?” I asked. “You’re the one who ends up smelling like pee.”
So what if his hands on me made me feel melty and decadent like a gourmet grilled cheese?
“Vernon was a Marine. Retirement bored him so he took up training for Iron Man events. He’s not human.”
“I moved on, but my parents didn’t. I guess there’s something about seeing your only child nearly die in front of your eyes that changes a parent. So they worry. Still. Chalk that one up in the Things We Never Got Over column.”
Whenever you’re close, everything is better. The closer you are, the easier I breathe, the less I feel like life is just a never-ending pour of lemon juice into an open wound that won’t heal. You take away the dark, the cold. And you remind me what it’s like to want to be here.”
Too many disappointments over the years. I’d learned that having expectations where he was concerned only guaranteed my own disappointment.
just wish I woulda kept trying to look to the light instead of sinking into the dark,” he said. “A man can learn to live in that dark, but it’s no life.”
“However, unpopular opinion here. You’re not responsible for how you were brought up, but you are responsible for your actions and reactions once you’re an adult.”
“Being vulnerable doesn’t mean you’re weak. It means you trust yourself to be strong enough to handle the hurt. It’s actually the purest form of strength.”
No one has a natural talent for being in a relationship. Everyone has to learn how to be good at it. It takes a lot of practice and forgiveness and vulnerability.”
“Three boys who go to bed every night and wake up with all manners erased from their brains so you have to start over with feral cave babies every morning. Anyway. What was I saying?”
