Everything about her is captivating, like the aftermath of a storm.
I wonder if humans are the only living creatures that ever feel hollow inside.
I think about how sometimes, no matter how convinced you are that your life will turn out a certain way, all that certainty can be washed away with a simple change in tide. I.
Not everything is going to go my way and not everyone gets a happily ever after. Life is real and sometimes it’s ugly and you just have to learn how to cope. I’m going to accept it with a dose of your indifference, and move on.
Fallon, I don’t care about the book. I don’t even want to finish it. All I care about is you. Being with you every day. Seeing you every day. I’m not finished falling in love with you yet. But if you don’t want to finish falling in love with me, then you need to tell me right now.
Who would have thought that my first fight over a girl would be for a girl who isn’t even mine?
I’m not going to pretend that I know what you’ve gone through. But after reading those pages, I can assure you that you aren’t the only one who was scarred in that fire. Just because he chose not to show you his scars doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
I’m amazed at how such a small touch can cause such a consequential reaction.
I think she might be one of those people who are good at everything they do. She has a talent for life.
I do what I can to avoid people most of the time, and not because I’m afraid they’ll stare at my scars. I avoid them because they don’t stare. The second people notice me, they look away just as fast, because they’re afraid to appear rude or judgmental. Just once it would be nice if someone looked me in the eyes and held my stare. It’s been so long since that’s happened.
If an attraction is present between two people, those two people can only be one of two things. Involved or not involved. There is no in-between.
I’m way too selfish to have children.
His tongue slides against mine and there’s so much feeling in it, it’s as if he’s kissing me the same way he looks at me. From the inside out.
After a while, I began to notice that the good moments with Brad began to outweigh all the sadness. The sadness that was my life became the moments, and my happiness with Brad became my life.
A smile tugs at his lips. ‘Look at that,’ he says quietly. ‘Merit has a heart.
As much as I want it to empty. I’m worried that feelings are the one thing in our lives that we have absolutely no control over.
Andrew interrupts. “You’re letting her drive your car? Are you kidding me? You’ve never even let me sit behind the damn wheel!” I look over at Andrew and shrug. “You aren’t the one I’m in love with.
My mother says there are people you meet and get to know, and then there are people you meet and already know. I feel like Owen is the latter. Our personalities seem to complement each other, like we’ve known one another our whole lives. I had no idea until today just how much I need someone like him in my life.
She was my incubating uterus and birthday party thrower for the last seventeen years.
He’s still in everything, and I keep waiting until he’s not.