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It’s about your place in this world. It’s the space you declare as yours emotionally and spiritually. You must remember that you don’t need objects to justify your existence or make yourself feel safe and secure.”
Somehow, even in the midst of great chaos, even when it was tacky as hell, men still managed to get the hots for a female.
When you eliminate the
impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
As people went through their daily lives, off-the-cuff choices and random events could sometimes spiral into a kind of centrifugal force that sucked you in and then spun you out into a different zip code altogether.
I’ll let you live a long life, knowing that you are the reason she’s ruined from the inside out.
Sometimes emotions were like a locomotive for words: Once they got a reveal rolling, there was no slowing the thing down, no brakes strong enough to grab onto the tracks of your throat. “I love you,” he said with more breath than syllable.
just needed you to know. Once. I just needed to say it . . . once. I realize I haven’t known you long enough or well enough, and I’m very aware that I’m not the man for you . . . but some things need to be said.”
that her rage had passed, she realized that his conscience was going to haunt him to the day he died, and that was the punishment he’d earned and was going to carry out.
As much as you wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in control of their life. Not you. And you could throw yourself against the wall of their choices until you were black-and-blue and dizzy as hell, but unless they decided to take a different road, the outcome wasn’t going to be what you wanted.
It’s not about the things. It’s about your place in this world. It’s the space you declare as yours emotionally and spiritually.
Tonight it was all about the violent and the premeditated, and she didn’t like this world. It was hard enough to get through the day when only Mother Nature and Murphy’s Law were after you.
