When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don’t let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, a year or fifty years. Don’t let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.
I’m cancer, Luce. And not the kind that you can kill off with radiation. The kind that kills you in the end.
I just wanted you to know I’d be chasing after you right now, naked if need required it. But because I’m respecting your need for time and space, I’ll force myself to lie here in bed and pretend I’m asleep.
You may very well be the death of me one day. But what a way to go.
I don’t want a girl, or a woman, or a supermodel. I want you.
He made me happy. He made me crazy. He made me thank the heavens for the day I’d met him. He made me curse the same heavens for the day I’d met him.
There weren’t perfect people, nor were there perfect lives or perfect relationships. There were, however, perfect moments. And this was one of them.
Happily ever after wasn’t a destination, it was a journey. And we were well on our way.
Luce. We fight. I’m used to that. Sure, that fight was the scariest ass one we’ve ever had, but you’re here now. That’s all that matters. No matter how many fights we have, or how much they tip the Richter scale, none of it matters as long as at the end of the day, you’re still with me.
His eyes stayed trained on me, unblinking. “Fine.” Convince me you don’t want me like I want you.
Damn it, kiss me, Luce.
We all have secrets, Rowen. Every last person on the planet. And you know what else? We all experience the same kinds of things. We just go through them at different times and to different degrees.
Lou didn’t need to tell me, Luce,” he said, looking between me and the field. “I don’t need someone to tell me when my girl’s in the stands. I could pick you out even if I was playing in the Superdome and you were tucked into the back row.
And then I met one whose face I couldn’t forget. I fell in love with her and was afraid she was going to leave me the way everyone else had... I still love her.
I’m a realist,” I said. “Lying and making promises about forever is almost as bad as one day at a time.
One true friend was worth more than fifty frenemies who laughed at my engagement ring. Bitches.
When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don’t let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, or a year or a hundred years.
I didn’t have the answers yet, but I wasn’t terrified of them anymore.
I’ve lived every beat loving you, since I first met you.
You’re right. Maybe it wouldn’t change anything.” His gaze shifted from the brightening ocean to me. I didn’t need to look into his eyes to feel their intensity. “But maybe it would change everything.