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Our Perfect Storm Our Perfect Storm by Carley Fortune
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“I love you, Frankie. My love for you is fundamental to who I am. It’s deep in my bones. A sonnet written in the marrow.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“Kissing George was like stepping inside a house I’d never seen but somehow knew was home.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“No one is going to give me a trophy for how I live my life. There’s no winning—there’s only life.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I’m going to give you some space. But I’m not running away. I’m coming home to you.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“My love for him was like a bucket sitting out in the rain, slowly collecting water, drop by drop, until one day, it was spilling over.” She shrugs. “He was my partner. The person I wanted near me for the good times and when it felt like the world was falling apart.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I have the sense of settling into myself.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I don’t think we’re burning it down. Our friendship is the fire. I think we’re giving it oxygen.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“There are no ugly parts. Some of them are louder than others. Some might be vicious when provoked.” His eyes drill into mine. “But they’re all you. They’re all worthy of love.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I’m not the woman I was in my twenties”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“The kind that makes me grateful to be alive, right here, right now, on this spectacular planet.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I’ve found that going back to the beginning is sometimes the only way to move forward,”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I want us to be us again. I want it to be like the way it was.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“Hot breath on the back of my neck. A hand coasting along my rib cage and settling in the dip of my waist. Lips pressed to the top of my spine. His voice, a growl. “Do you like it slow in the morning?” A knuckle brushes over the hard peak of my nipple. “Tell me what you want, sweetheart.” I have a fuzzy awareness that this is a dream—a perfect, morning-sex sex dream. My eyelids flutter, but I don’t want to wake up. A tug, and my backside nestles against him. I gasp at how hard he is. It feels so real.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“What matters is being here. Trying. Falling. Waiting for the right moment to try again.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“George has always been treated like family. He’s my mom’s favorite child.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I think you give each other a rush but also a foundation you can trust. Together”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“This is a tempest”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I love you”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“It’s not fair”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I’m not sure I can. But I don’t want to ruin our friendship”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I’m a thirty-year-old woman”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I’m not sure. I don’t want to be absorbed by another person”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“But our history is so intertwined that it’s impossible to have enough distance to see our friendship clearly”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“Some right whales are given names, but 1950 had none. I called her Francesca.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“An adventure through food. An edible passport.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I love love.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“But I don’t want to operate from a place of hurt. I want to leave space for the good memories.”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
I don't know how I would have survived the last twelve years without you in my life. There's an alternate reality where we didn't live next door to each other and never became friends. I imagine a version of myself falling apart on the floor of my bedroom alone, and I feel sorry for that George. That guy is so fucking lost without you.
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“Shows what I know. Now I’m thirty”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm
“I haven’t lost all the heaviness I’ve carried with me for so long”
Carley Fortune, Our Perfect Storm

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