Terms of Service Quotes

“I feel like I don’t know myself anymore. I want you here, like this, bound to me the way you have been. But I also want to run away to the mountains with you and never come back. I want to be in control, because it’s the only way I feel safe, but I’m tired of wanting it. I want to tell you I’m ready to try something different, but it terrifies me more than I can say. I’m afraid it’ll all go wrong. I’ve been doing this for so long, I have no idea how to be anything other than what I am. But right now, what I am doesn’t fit.

He shook his head, frustrated at his inability to capture it all.

I can’t explain it. It doesn’t make any sense, even to me. I feel like I’ve been living somebody else’s life, and I don’t know what my own life is supposed to be.”
― Marie Sexton, Terms of Service

“That dormant urge to make the temporary permanent roared to life in his chest, like some dragon finally freed of its chains. This lily. This moment. The knowledge that it connected him to Taylor, to the mountains, to the entire world in some small, imperceptible way, filled him with a sense of purpose. Each moment and each encounter somehow had the power to create the next.”
― Marie Sexton, Terms of Service