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Damaged Like Us (Like Us, #1) Damaged Like Us by Krista Ritchie
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“We're like lightning and thunder, inherently different but alike enough to share the same sky.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Dear World, stop fucking with me. Sincerely, an agitated human.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“I watched Maximoff Hale on-screen profess his undying love for Power Rangers and excitedly say, 'I hope that if I have a brother or a sister, they'll like Power Rangers too.'

Public Fact: Xander Hale is a Power Ranger every year for Halloween.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
'Dad' she huffs.
'Kinney Hale,' he refutes, "I banished ghosts from this house millenniums ago. They're all afraid of me.”
Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“The Cobalt Empire is the largest, known for their regal poise, intellectual prowess, and fierce commitment to one another. Each Cobalt is prideful and passionately unique but when push comes to shove.

They'll band together like an army of one.”
Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“We’re in this shit together, and we’re going to get out together. No matter what.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Maximoff.” His deep voice pitches me from a fantasy.
I lift my eyes.
He smiles.
“What?” I combat.
Farrow bends a knee. “Are you thinking about the philosophical meaning of the world or are you thinking about fucking me in the ass?”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Luna stares at each of us, even Farrow, like she's mentally grouping us together as the Hale family. A band of fucking weirdos
Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“There’s something so human and warm about my dad.
It’s his love of the people around him.
His love for his wife and children.
His love for me. It’s more powerful than anything I’ve ever known.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Maximoff lowers his voice. 'The shade is called My Lips Against Your Lips, and it's not coming off. Stop rubbing and let's form a plan.”
Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“He tries to open his mouth for air.
If I could give him mine, I would.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“I love having him in my mouth, but even more than that, I'm hooked by the way he's staring deeply at me. Like I'm a fantasy. Like I'm something made of heaven and stars that he's dreamt of- and I never thought to ask what a celebrity who could have anyone in the fucking world fantasizes about.

And I wonder how long it's been me.”
Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“We all know he ranks me above Iron Man, Thor, and whatever other Avenger makes an on-screen appearance. Not just because I'm clearly better and clearly not fictional.

But because I'm his bodyguard. His real-life superhero.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“November 30th marks Luna Hale's eighteenth birthday. Time fucking flies - I remember when she was just a baby and we'd tap each other's noses and say beep beep.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Ouch,' my dad says in mock hurt. 'Right in the heart, Lil'
'Its the only place I can reach,' she refutes.
'I'm not sure about that...' Their voices soften. Too quiet. Which means they're lip-locked.
'Mom! Dad!' I shout, and Farrow and I reach the base of the stairs first.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
tags: love
“Uncle Lo says that it's not a party until there's salsa. It's a party rule, right?' She looks to Jane.
'Well...' Jane muses the idea for too long.
I cut in, 'My dad could also eat five hot sauce packets for brunch and nothing else.'

'Famous ones,' Farrow calls out and our heads turn to him. 'There's no salsa rule for parties. Not normal.”
Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Let's go kick some ass.
Civilly.
Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
tags: family
“You wonder why I didn’t become bitter at the world.
You wonder why I don’t resent the world.
Because I knew I needed to become something that could withstand the world.
For my siblings, for my family, for anyone who’d grow up after me and need someone to defend them when they can’t defend themselves; when they need a shoulder to cry on or a safety net to fall in – I’m here. I’ve been here.
I’m always here.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Thanks for the blue balls.”
He fits his earpiece in. “You’ll thank me more when I take all of you in my mouth.”
My muscles clench, blood heating at the visual. I look back at Farrow.
His lips rise. “You’re easily hot and bothered.”
“And you’re not?” I combat.
“I conceal mine better. Comes with the territory.” He motions to his radio. “Don’t look so sad, wolf scout. You can’t be the best at everything.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“I have comic-book loving, pop-culture-obsessed parents. The coolest. I’m sure the two Meadows girls and the seven Cobalt children would protest and say their parents are cool, but there’s no comparison.
Hands down, mine are the goddamn best.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Charlie waves me on, then leans an elbow on his chair. Propping his head up with a finger by his temple.
He's pissed at me.
But this is Tuesday and the sky is blue. So everything is as it should be.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
tags: funny
“Bonsoir, ma moitié. Good evening, my other half.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“He’s my bodyguard – that’s not changing.
It’s not.
But I can’t even think about anyone else. He hasn’t just pitched a tent in my brain and dick. He’s built a fucking stone castle.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Plus, if we invited Luna, we'd have to invite Jane's two brothers, Eliot Cobalt and Tom Cobalt. Which would probably end with me calling the fire department or our on-call doctor.”
Becca Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Thoreau said, ‘Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“I know there may be a point where a crisis in my family may conflict with whatever’s happening in your life – and you’re not going to like who I choose.”
“You’re going to choose your family because that’s who you are,” Farrow says strongly. “And I will love you for it.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“You need to do that I only do exclusive. No fucking around. You want me, you only get me, and vice versa.”
Exclusive.
A relationship.
A secret relationship.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“He leans forward, his lips an inch from mine. And very deeply, very huskily, he whispers, “What do you want, Maximoff?”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Don’t you see, Maximoff? There’s a cement wall in front of you, and you’ve just been told to be satisfied with staring at it … And so you just stand there, not able to see the other side.” ... “It’s my job to help you over the wall ... I’m going to give you what you’ve never been given.”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us
“Why can’t my successes be associated with the Hale family? Is it so fucking hard for the media to believe that addicts can raise a good man? A good son?”
Krista Ritchie, Damaged Like Us

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