He hugs me. That’s all he does. He hugs me tightly without a word, yet I can feel everything he’s saying.
A person can’t help their attraction to another person, but a person can help their actions toward another person.
Lucky for you, I’m not Monopoly Silas anymore. I’m Tetris Silas. All my pieces and parts are going to fit into all of your pieces and parts.
As his daughter, I loved him. But as a human, I hated him.
If a scientist could figure out how to align the heart with the brain, there would be very little agony left in the world.
He’s smiling, and I didn’t realize how much I missed seeing that smile. He should smile all the time. Forever. At me.
I’ll think about last night forever, Owen. Even when I shouldn’t.
This isn’t a game I want to win, Charlie. If anything, I’d say we both lost.
I’m confident that I’ll never spend a single second of my life regretting you.
His memory is the last place I want to be.
He catches my gasp with his mouth, and he picks me up, carrying me out of the shower and straight to the bed. And this time, I don’t get lost in his touch. I don’t get lost in his kiss. I don’t get lost in how it feels when he pushes himself inside me. I don’t feel lost in him at all, because it’s the first time I’ve ever felt like someone truly found me.
It’s the small things people do for others that define the largest parts of them.
So just because I like reading about those kinds of guys, doesn’t mean I need my real-life guys to act like that.
Sometimes when people change, it’s not always noticeable in a marriage, because the couple changes together, in the same direction. But sometimes people change in opposite directions.
God gave me a lot of great things to accomplish in my life, and right now, I’m so far behind I ain’t ever gonna die.
If I knew birthday presents made her this excited, I would have bought her one the day I met her. And every day since then.
Sometimes at night, I’ll rewrite conversations I had during the day, but I’ll change them up to reflect everything I wish I could have said in the moment. So I just want you to know that tonight when I write this conversation down on paper, I’ll say something really heroic and it’ll make you feel really good about your life.
And I like it. I like it when he stares at me, because it’s been a long time since I’ve felt beautiful in someone else’s eyes. And right now, he’s watching me so closely and with such a satisfied, heated look in his eyes, I would be fine if we spent the rest of the night just doing this and not speaking at all.
Mom: A doctor, Lily? AND your own business? I want to be you when I grow up.
Every incident chips away at your limit. Every time you choose to stay, it makes the next time that much harder to leave. Eventually, you lose sight of your limit altogether, because you start to think, ‘I’ve lasted five years now. What’s five more?