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Our Perfect Storm
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“No one is going to give me a trophy for how I live my life. There’s no winning—there’s only life.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“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.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“Kissing George was like stepping inside a house I’d never seen but somehow knew was home.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“I’ve found that going back to the beginning is sometimes the only way to move forward,”
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― 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.”
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― 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.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“Don't get me wrong: I thought your father was cute. But what made me love him was an accumulation of so many things over the years—conversations, small gestures, jokes. He was interested in everything I had to say. He wanted me to achieve my goals as badly as I did. 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.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“I don’t think we’re burning it down. Our friendship is the fire. I think we’re giving it oxygen.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“Nobody’s going to give you an award for ticking off all the boxes you think you should have checked.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“It's not fair, you knowing all my weak spots."
A hum vibrates in his chest. "It's not fair, you being the greatest of mine.”
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A hum vibrates in his chest. "It's not fair, you being the greatest of mine.”
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“I’m going to give you some space. But I’m not running away. I’m coming home to you.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“I have the sense of settling into myself.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“I love you, Frankie. You are everything I know about love.”
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― 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.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“I’m not the woman I was in my twenties”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“You're both so full of energy and ideas, but when you're together, all that creativity and vitality seems to multiply. You feed off each other in positive ways— you've always been partners. Beneath all the fun and excitement is something much firmer. I think you give each other a rush but also a foundation you can trust. Together, you're both the tide and the ocean floor. Constantly moving but stable.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“This, I think, is what I’ve chased for so long. Not just shelter from the storm, but a haven.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“What matters is being here. Trying. Falling. Waiting for the right moment to try again.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“I think you give each other a rush but also a foundation you can trust. Together”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“The kind that makes me grateful to be alive, right here, right now, on this spectacular planet.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“I think of what he said earlier: No one is going to give me a trophy for how I live my life. There’s no winning—there’s only life.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“My mom is the baker, but I found the precise measurements and the need to follow instructions confining. I fell in love with cooking because it felt like music. Once you knew the basics, you were free to improvise, to experiment, to taste and adjust to your liking. A good recipe is a song—you can sing it a little out of tune and it’s still good. Sometimes, it’s even better.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“My love for him was like a bucket sitting out in the rain”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“What if it didn’t end with plates? What if all the things that made me me were stamped out so slowly I didn’t even notice?”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“I slip on my sunglasses and close my eyes, imagining I'm fourteen and that George is inside getting us grape Crush. Summer stretches before us, glittering with possible escapades, and my biggest problem is squeezing them all before August comes to an end.”
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“hall.”
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“squeezes.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“There are no ugly parts. Some of them are louder than others. Some might be vicious when provoked.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“Love is the simplest thing. Relationships are the hard part.”
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― Our Perfect Storm
“I think what really bothered me is that the idea of belonging to him felt oppressive," I tell George.
"Do you think that's about Nate or marriage in general?"
"I'm not sure. I don't want to be absorbed by another person, but maybe I wouldn't mind belonging to someone if they belonged to me, too. If we belonged to each other as well as to ourselves."
"An equal belonging."
"Yeah, exactly. I think I could be into that."
George hums. "I think I'd be into that, too.”
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"Do you think that's about Nate or marriage in general?"
"I'm not sure. I don't want to be absorbed by another person, but maybe I wouldn't mind belonging to someone if they belonged to me, too. If we belonged to each other as well as to ourselves."
"An equal belonging."
"Yeah, exactly. I think I could be into that."
George hums. "I think I'd be into that, too.”
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