“You're my heart. You don't walk away from your heart," he whispered in my ear.”
“He finished quickly, closed my fingers into my palm and kissed them. I slowly uncurled them to read his message, which was written boldly across the expanse of my palm. One word that screamed a whole lot more.
MINE.”
“Tell me that you want me.” He whispered.
“I want you.” Always.
“Only me?”
“Only you.” Had there ever been anyone else?”
“It's impossible. I can't be your friend. It hurts too much. If I'm ruining you, then you've destroyed me. I finally trusted someone enough to love and you proved that all along it wasn't worth it.”
“Guess what, love, you will [screw up]. So will he. It’s what you do with it once you've screwed up that matters.”
“Just because someone you loved dies, doesn't mean that your world ends as well.”
“I can't live without you. I'm done trying.”
“Please stop running from me,” he whispered.
“Please stop trying to catch me.”
“Enjoy my touchdown Beautiful. Scream my name nice and loud just like yesterday. J-”
“I’ve been calling you mine. Before I’d gotten to know you, I knew I had to make you mine. It only got worse the closer we got. When Cole carried you away from me that day, I realised you weren’t mine at all. I. AM. YOURS.”
“I don't drink since it ruined the best thing I ever had.”
“You have to stop worrying that you’ll lose me. There’s nowhere else in this world that I want to be. I love you, beautiful girl.”
“Please, don’t do this,” he whispered. His familiar words hit me and I wiggled out of his hold. “I seem to remember saying, actually yelling, begging, pleading, those exact words to you a month ago. Let me respond the same way you did…” I saw him flinch right before I turned and walked out the door.”
“Why didn't you tell me there was a smoking hot carbon copy of you?”
“Relax, I won’t say it again for a while. I just want you to get used to the fact that one day, when you’re comfortable with it, I’ll tell you every day, multiple times a day. I want you to know how much I love you every single damn day, but for now, I’ll just let you soak it in.”
“Ew, guys, stop it. Not on the couch.” Quinn was right next to us, batting me off of Jaxon.
“Oh, like we haven’t gotten plenty of fluids on this couch already, sweetheart,” Cole laughed from behind her.
“All of you are disgusting, shut up, push play, and keep your fluids to yourselves,” Jace complained.”
“The night I started playing your CD out loud for you, instead of playing it through my headphones?"
Now this made my eyebrows rise. "You listened to it before that night?"
"Every night. I've listened to it every single night since you gave it to me.”
“I'll show you how great we are going to be. Because you're the most beautiful girl I've ever met, and I'm not talking about your gorgeous face, your stunning hair or your drop-dead sexy body. I never knew it was possible to be so attracted to your best friend.”
“Tequila doesn't ask you to talk about your problems. Tequila and I have always gotten along.”
“Damn it, Emerson, just stop!” he yelled. “Stop pretending you don’t care. Why won’t you let me in? Why won’t you let me care about you? Because for some maddening reason, I do!”
“My eyes will always find you in a crowd.”
“Don’t get offended at me for this,” he whispered, then his warmth disappeared and I whimpered at the loss. The hand not holding the shot glass came around my hips and squeezed me in close to let me know he heard that.
“Here’s to honor. Get on her. Stay on her. If you fall off. Get back on her. If you can’t cum in her. Cum on her! Happy Birthday Man!” Jaxon shouted in his deep voice.”
“You think I’m not in pain? You think my heart wasn’t ripped out of my fucking chest till I couldn’t breathe anymore? You think this is easy for me?”
“Be silly, be honest, and be kind,”
“That was the day that I learned that people always leave. If they aren’t cheating on one another, they’re dying.”
“I hear she's been wanting to go for a ride on a motorcycle if any of you riders are interested.”
“I don't need a protector, okay?" I breathed.
"I'm trying my fucking hardest here, Beautiful.”
“How come no one understood me, and more importantly, how come I was starting to not understand myself?”
“You are the most frustrating person ever! Don’t you understand? It’s not that I thought you were cheating on me. It’s that YOU WERE MINE! Not his. MINE, EMERSON! But in your time of need, you chose someone else over me.”
“I’m just a really messed-up person. I don’t know how to handle life like every other normal college student out there,” I sighed.”
“He could pick my heart like a rose and watch it wither in his hand. Sometimes I think he is like that. At other times I think he is as simple and golden and generous as our father's fields. And then I see things in his eyes - things that I have never looked at, and I know that I have walked a short and easy road out of my past, while he has walked a thousand roads to meet me. I know Perrin's past; the same road runs into his future. I don't know Corbet.”
“The Civil War was pre-eminently a political war, a war of peoples rather than of professional armies.”
“Then, as if realizing we might be freaked out, the guy adds, ‘Hey. I’m Adam.”
“Who was it who had said you were only as happy as your unhappiest child?”
“I never met the boy, or his parents, but I see kids like him every day.” Sonia tells Connor. “Their world is shattered, and they’re so desperate for validation that they’d blow themselves up to get it. Any parent who disowns that boy after what he did, and didn’t do . . . doesn’t deserve to have children at all, much less a child to give away.”
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