With one kiss, my life had been altered. It would follow a different path now. One where a woman owned my heart.
You are perfect. So perfect that you take my breathe away. I’m completely obsessed with you. You’re all I see anymore, Reese. Nothing about you is broken.
People who don’t know us can take one look at me and know I’m completely owned.
Blaire isn’t just another girl for me. She’s it for me. She. Is. It.” Saying the words out loud didn’t just shock everyone around me, it shocked the hell out of me, too. She was it. I would never want anyone else. Ever. Just Blaire.
With you, I want it all. If I get a taste of what it could be, I won’t ever want to let it go. I fell in love with you when I was sixteen, and that’s never changed. But trusting you with my heart again is different. With you, I need to know it’s forever.
You needed to know that what we had was forever. Bethy, it was forever with me when I was eighteen years old. You were all I could see then, and you’re all I can see now. I’ve been waiting for you, sweetheart, to heal and to come back to me. But all you had to do was tell me you wanted forever, too. I would move heaven and earth to make that happen.
Maggie made me feel stronger. She reminded me that I wasn’t alone in this world. That others had gone through this too. That I could be what my momma needed me to be... what my dad needed me to be.
The life I lived was Heaven on Earth because I spent it with you.
It ended as suddenly as it had begun. He didn’t say a word when he backed away from me. He didn’t look at me. Instead he’d turned and stalked over to his truck and left. I had no idea who he was. All I knew was that he was beautiful and haunted and he’d given me a first kiss to remember.
But I did need someone. West became my someone. I think everyone needs a someone.” She paused and looked directly at me. “I hope you’re his.” I did too. “If I am, I won’t let him down.” pg. 74.
The truth was, I loved a man who would never love me. I wasn’t enough for him, or he would have stayed. Chasing him was futile. He didn’t want to be found. He’d given me what I had come here for: closure. I had my closure, and he had his.
We were all the same inside. Didn’t matter how we looked or who our friends were. We all wanted the same thing. To belong. To be accepted.
Loving someone doesn’t mean allowing them to use you for their benefit. It just means they have a place in your heart. A place that they earned.
I’ve found that the things that rattle us the most are the ones worth making sacrifices for.
He is Death and he’s about to break all the rules.
Loving someone you don’t deserve isn’t easy. It hurts like hell. But not one moment of my time with Blaire would I regret.
I was strong. I was self-sufficient. I was going to be OK.
They say that children have the purest hearts. That children don’t truly hate, because they don’t fully understand the emotion. They forgive and forget easily.
I don’t just want a man. I want an epic romance.
I didn’t want to love Gunner Lawton. Not in a way he could break me. I was too broken already.