I’d rather be screwed up with you than smooth with anybody else.
I said, you’re the beat of my heart, the breath in my body, the light in my soul.
Why don’t you put your ego down for a while, Justin. It must be getting heavy.
I’ve wanted to be with you when I didn’t have the right to.
Couples take care of each other, Clare, that’s what makes them a couple. And couples tell each other when something happens that scares them.
It’s about us. It’s about trust.
That’s possible to likely. We’re involved, you and me. I’m telling you what I’m going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.
I hope that’s true, because I figured out why I’d never finished it, what I was waiting for. I was waiting for you, Clare. For them. For us. I want to finish it up for you, for them, for us.
I hate patience. Slows everything down.
She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.
I think those who have impact and influence over us are often unaware.
Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.
You want safe? Find a nice puppy you can train to come heel. Love’s supposed to be scary. Because if there’s no fear, there’s no thrill.
Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.
You bring the color and the life. It’s a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.
Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They’re there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don’t keep driving into the pothole.
It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.
Why couldn’t she have this, just enjoy this, without creating obstacles, digging up problems, worrying about mistakes, about tomorrow’s? Why let the maybe’s, the what if’s, the probabilities spoil something so lovely?
We’re not blank slates. What we’ve done, what we’ve survived all go into us.
It’s an exceptional thing to have someone in your life who knows and understands you so well. Who loves who you are. A very exceptional thing.