“He pecks my lips. I knew you were the one the second I laid eyes on you.
The one to bring me back to life.
‘How did you know?’ He’s talking. I need to extract as much from him as possible.He looks me straight in the eyes. They are bursting with meaning. ‘Because my heart starting beating again.' He whispers.”
“Ava, why the fuck am I handcuffed to the bed?”
“I knew you were the one the second I laid eyes on you.'
'The one?'
'The one to bring me back to life.”
“Damn you, Jesse Ward, of an age I don't know!”
“I want the woman with me who keeps my heart beating.”
“I am confident, because you said yes. Or was it....." He looks up to the ceiling in deep thought and then back at me. "Oh, I remember. It was...yes, yes, yes, fucking hell, yes!”
“I want you here when I go to sleep." He licks my bottom lip. "And I want you here when I wake up. Starting and ending my day with you is all I need.”
“Where you're concerned, I'll try my best, Ava. I already told you, I've waited too long for you. You're my little piece of heaven. Nothing will rob you from me. Nothing.”
“You're mine, and mine alone, baby. Just for my eyes, just for my touch and just for my pleasure. Just mine. Do you understand me?”
“It's pure bliss, baby. Total gratification. Absolute, complete earth shifting, universe shaking love.”
“I want to be your life.”
“You're so handsome." I mumble dreamily, as he starts working the cream over every inch of my back. "I think I'll keep you forever.”
“You were drunk. I wanted to hear the words when you were of sound mind. Women get drunk all the time and confess their undying love to me.”
“As long as I have you, I have purpose and reason. That is why I won't be drinking and that is why I will do everything in my power to keep you safe. Understand?”
“Promise me you'll never leave me.”
“I'm going to make you happy for the rest of my life, baby. Lets dance.”
“Never Ava.All I need is you and for you to need me. Nothing else." Jesse”
“I love you so fucking much. I didn't think it was possible.”
“Now, we have sleepy celebration sex.”
“I'm so glad. You're the best birthday present I've ever had.”
“Ava, you're driving like Miss Daisy. Will you put your foot down?”
“I can't believe you're in my life, I can't believe you're mine. You are so, so precious to me, baby.”
“Ava, you're asking me not to touch you. That goes against all of my instincts.”
“I don't know what I've done to deserve you.”
“No, you're a child because of the way you eat peanut butter. No one over the age of ten should finger dip jars and as I'm being kept in the dark over your age, I assume that you are over ten.”
“I'm going to worship you every day for the rest of my life.”
“You’ve mistaken the stars reflected on the surface of the lake at night for the heavens.”
“We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.”
“When deliberating on a negotiating strategy or approach, people tend to focus all their energies on what to say or do, but it’s how we are (our general demeanor and delivery) that is both the easiest thing to enact and the most immediately effective mode of influence. Our brains don’t just process and understand the actions and words of others but their feelings and intentions too, the social meaning of their behavior and their emotions. On a mostly unconscious level, we can understand the minds of others not through any kind of thinking but through quite literally grasping what the other is feeling. Think”
“the darkest desire of humankind—to hold absolute power, to control, to command obedience, to eliminate all voices of disagreement and dissent—had found its full expression.”
“I'm learning that my brain will invent catastrophic scenarios that bear absolutely no relationship to reality because, like Heloise, I am too much accustomed to misfortune to expect any happy turn.”
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