Try and make it right, and if you can’t, that’s on them, not you. Forgiveness shouldn’t be stockpiled by anyone. It should be given freely.
Better to be a catalyst for change than a martyr for lies.
Vengeance was a terrible prison.
When you’re young it just seems so much easier. You’re not set in your ways yet. The world is open to you, as are the people in it. Even though I know forty isn’t old at all, it’s old enough that little things like friendship are harder to come by.
Once you have a Dex in your lap, you can’t go back,” I said. I looked over at Perry. “Ain’t that right, kiddo?
I have never wanted someone so badly before, mentally and physically, that I was afraid my body might act without any instructions from me.
We have no idea how important this is,” I find myself whispering, my voice feeling rough and raw. “The sunrise?” Daisy asks. She’s in awe as the colors change before our eyes. I swallow the lump in my throat. “To see the dawn of the new days. Sometimes it feels like the world around us is collapsing. Sometimes it’s the world inside us. But the sun always rises. It always promises that we can start again. It’s the one thing we can count on when we can’t count on anything else.
A bulletproof vest under everything else. I couldn’t do anything to protect my head, but at least my hair looked good. I.
Don’t judge yourself because you’re not perfect and pure. There are enough hypocrites out there that will do that for you.
You’re bad.” “You love that I’m bad.” She smiled serenely at me. “You know I do.
You call spouting off lines from erotica as working hard? Please, I eat romance novels for breakfast, you’re no different from the vapid dirty-talking alphas I read. I wouldn’t be surprised if you had a Kindle highlighted with all the best lines to try.” If.
If only, if only, if only. But hindsight has never done anyone any favors.
This is not just a fling.” He pulls away and peers at me intently. “I am not that kind of man. You make me richer, you matter to me. I want us to be together.
She has a right to be afraid of me. Girls like that never get the karma they deserve. If she’s not careful, I’ll deliver my own karma.
You don’t last long in this line of work if you feel more than others. Only the strong and the armored survive. You need an extra layer of skin, of Teflon, of Kevlar.
The wind blows back my hair and I don’t know if I’ve ever felt so alive and electric before. Maybe this is how life is the moment before you die, everything exploding around you to make saying goodbye that much more bittersweet.
You feel everything. You make me feel everything.
Is this going to be like ‘Indecent Proposal?’” she asks. “Because Robert Redford loses at the end.
The driver seems to have no regard for traffic lights, or other cars, or pedestrians, or roads, or even life itself.
You have conquered my heart.