Glimmers of You (Lost & Found, #3)

by Catherine Cowles

“I don’t think grief is linear. Some days are easier. Others will take you out at the knees.” He looked back at the water. “Not everyone gets that. Some people just want me to be better. Who I was before.” “But you’re never going to be that person again. This changed you.”

“ Grief is the last act of love we have to give to those we loved Where there is deep grief there’s deep love” ❤️

the truth: that I watched Caden with a single-minded fascination. So, I’d seen the change. It had come on slowly and yet all at once. A darkness that hadn’t been there before. But it was a part of him, and I couldn’t help but love it the same way I loved the rest of him. It just made those glimmers of his light shine that much brighter.

“ Distance is not for the fearful it is for the bold it is for those willing to spend a lot of time Alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love it is for when knowing a good thing when they see it even if they don’t see it nearly enough” 😔

“Stay with me. Stay awake,” Caden commanded. I wanted to. I always wanted to be with Caden. But I was so tired. The darkness pulled me under, but not before I heard his voice calling after me. “Don’t you leave me, too.”

“ Love has nothing to do with what you’re expecting to get Only with what you’re expecting to give Which is everything” ❤️‍🩹

“Not always, but I think I see him. The good and the bad.” That was why it had hurt so badly to lose Caden. I just had to hope that spending time together now would get us to a new place—one where I could appreciate him as a friend but let him go as anything more than that.

“ one of the hardest things in life is watching the person you love love someone else” 🥺

“I’m not weak. I’m not going to crumble.” “I know⁠—” “Do you? Because you sometimes look at me like you expect me to fall apart in front of your eyes. But you, of all people, should know better than that. I didn’t break when I got Type 1. Or when you walked out of my life and broke my damn heart. And I’m not going to break because some asshole is trying to scare me.”

“ It’s not the problem that causes our suffering It’s our thinking about the problem” 😌

“I can’t stay away from you anymore. I tried. I tried so damn hard it killed something inside of me. But I can’t do it anymore.” “Why?” I whispered. Fear flashed in those gorgeous hazel eyes. “I couldn’t stand the thought of losing you.” My fingers tightened around his biceps. “I’m right here. I’ve always been right here. I thought you didn’t want me.” Caden shook his head, and I saw so much pain in his eyes. “I’ve wanted you for longer than I ever should’ve. I tried to hide it, to shove it down. But only one person has ever owned me. You.”

“ Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about” ⚕️

“I will only ever see the best things when I look at you. I’ll only ever see the truth.” Caden searched my eyes. “How?” “Because you’ve always been that glimmer of light for me. A beacon of hope. Even when I didn’t want you to be.”

“ What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we have” 💪🏻

“Losing each other just makes us appreciate this more.” I stretched up onto my tiptoes, bringing my mouth to his. I poured everything I didn’t have the words for into the kiss. Because what I felt for Caden went beyond love. It was something indescribable. Something I could only paint with my body against his.

“ to lose someone you love is to alter your life forever, the pain stops there are new people, but the gap never closes this hole in your heart is the shape of the one you lost no one else can fit it” 😭