Things We Hide from the Light (Knockemout, #2)

by Lucy Score

Why shine the light on things when you can pretend they don’t exist?”

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.”

“When you start being immune to it, that’s when it’s time to get out. It’s the hurt, the caring that makes us good at our jobs.”

It’s never gonna be easy. But we aren’t doing this for ease. We’re doing it to make a difference. Things like this? A thank-you from one of the ones who made it? That goes a long way.”

“That’s another strategy. Laugh even when things aren’t funny,”

“I just wish I woulda kept trying to look to the light instead of sinking into the dark,”

“Friends make friends better. We accept the bad parts, celebrate the good parts, and we don’t torture you for your mistakes,”

if you don’t realize what a strong, capable badass you are, you haven’t been paying attention.”

“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.”

“Yeah, well, now you know how it feels to be a woman in love with a dumbass with potential. Ninety-nine percent of the time, that potential never gets realized.”

“They told him that it was okay that he was feeling bad and that they were going to be his friend no matter how bad he felt.”

“You can’t take responsibility for another adult’s bad decisions,” Nash told her. His gaze shifted to me. “All you can do is try to make good ones for yourself.”

I loved her. I wasn’t using her as some crutch to avoid the world. She was reintroducing it to me one experience at a time.

“You’re everything I always wanted and never thought I deserved.”