I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. “I could kiss you!” Chubs cried. “Please don’t!” I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.
I think I’m losing it – I don’t know what’s happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at you, and I love you so much. Not because of anything you’ve said, or done, or anything at all. I look at you, and I just love you, and it terrifies me. It terrifies me what I would do for you.
I’m a monster, you know. I’m one of the dangerous ones. No you aren’t, he promised. Your one of us.
Sometimes you’re the one speeding along in a panic, doing too much, not paying attention, wrecking things you don’t mean to. And sometimes life just happens to you, and you can’t dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you’re made of.
We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we’ll want you tomorrow. There’s nothing you could do to change that.
Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to shake. Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark.
I don’t want to just see someone’s face; I want to know his shadow, too. – Jude.
And people like you are the reason we have middle fingers.
If there was one good thing that came out of all this, it was that I got to meet you. I would go through it all again – I would, as long as it meant I’d met you.
I think maybe the most frustrating feeling in the world is to have something to say buy not know how to put it into words. To have lived through something but not be able to get it out of you before it festers.
But there was another, secret Ruby. This one was as thin as a wisp of air, and had struggled for so long just to be. This was the one that Liam carried with him, without knowing. The one that would ride in his back pocket, whisper words of encouragement, tell him he was born to chase the light.
If a heart could break once, it shouldn’t have been able to happen again.
Try to imagine where we’d be without you, darlin’, and then maybe you’ll see just how lucky we got.
This is a place we don’t have to lie.
Strong feelings, especially terror and desperation, leave an imprint on the air that echo back to whoever’s unlucky enough to walk through that place again.
They’d taken in a monster, thinking it was a mouse.
Sometimes life just happens to you, and you can’t dodge it. It crashes into you because it wants to see what you’re made of.
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’d be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick.
The only thing worse than being without you would have been watching them break you day after day, until you weren’t yourself anymore.
I’m sick of wasting time on things that don’t matter.