Kev wasn’t certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.
I’m not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I’ve wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since...
Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?
I knew I would replay the scene countless times in the years before me, each time thinking of different things I should have said and done. But all I did was walk away without looking back.
I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you’ll miss me even a little. If you’ll remember me. If you’re sorry for anything.
I had to let go of him. But I knew that as long as I lived, I would feel the phantompain of his absence.
Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?
Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn’t know how to let him go. I’d never even had him.
The feeling of relinquishing responsibility to someone else, letting him take control, was a relief beyond words.
I loved him so much, loved his fearlessness, his strength, even the ambition that would someday take him away from me.
If I never have anything from him except this one moment I am going to take it. Take it now, or drown in regret later.
Some questions change everything.
Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don’t ever forget that, Liberty. You can’t take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.
When you’re walking through the darkness, you can’t depend on anything or anyone else to light your way. You have to rely on whatever sparks you’ve got inside you. Or you’re going to get lost.
Girlfriend, if you’re waiting for a fairy godmother to show up with a dress and a ride, you’re not going to make it to the party.
I didn’t expect it was going to be easy. But hard work is a lot easier to tolerate when it’s something you want to do instead of something you have no choice about.
I’m scared of making the biggest mistake of my life. I’m just trying to figure out what the mistake is.
Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.
When you love a child, you forgive her before she can even ask. Basically you’ve already forgiven her for things she hasn’t even done yet.
It would only lead to disappointment, even heartbreak, and her heart was too precious for me to let that happen.