“Living is hard. And every day our feet get heavier and we pick up more baggage. So, we stop and take a breath, close our eyes, reset our minds. It's natural. As lond as you open your eyes and keep going.”
“we should live like we smoke— inhale the present and exhale the past.”
“I’ll remind you every day how amazing it feels when your body touches mine. I’ll remind you of the good times, and help you forget the bad. I’ll remind you who you are when life has beaten you down and made you doubt it. I’ll bust down yourdoor in the middle of the night and kiss you until you remember that your fears are just that, and they can’t control you. I’ll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it’s mine.”
“But fear lets us know we're alive. It tells me that you care about what happens between us because the mind doesn't waste time being scared about things that don't matter.”
“Even the good things from our pasts still only belonged in the past”
“We’ve had too much death and disappointment, so we don’t know how to accept the good things when they happen to us.”
“There are some things that are worth fighting for, no matter the outcome, and you are one of them.”
“I’ll take my chances against your fickle heart if it means it’s mine.”
“After what could have been an eternity or a few seconds, Cade whispered, "Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.”
“I never dated a girl like her, and she's probably never dated a guy like me. But sometimes you don't know what you're looking for until it's already knocked you flat on your back.”
“This was a catastrofuck of colossal proportions.”
“I'm glad you fought for me," she said.
"I'm glad you let me.”
“Close your eyes. Remember what we talked about that night after your concert? Living is hard. It was hard when you were thirteen, it’s hard today, and it will be hard again in the future. So, you close your eyes and you breathe. Breathe with me.”
“Her eyes were a bottomless ocean that I would give up air to explore.”
“I think everyone does. Even happy people. They may not admit it to anyone, but I think they feel it. I think they close their eyes, or go for a run, or take a long shower, so that hey can forget just for a second who they are and what they have to do day in and day out.
Living is hard.
And every day our feet get heavier and we pick up more baggage. So, we stop and take a breath, close our eyes, reset our minds. It's natural. As long as you open your eyes and keep going.
(Cade)”
“You don’t know how much I’ve thought about this tattoo. I want to memorize it so that every time I close my eyes I can see the way it accentuates your body.”
“I know that you make me laugh, and that I love hearing your voice, especially when you sing. I know that I haven’t stopped thinking about you since the day you sat down beside me at that coffee shop.”
“Like they were part of two different solar systems, neither revolving with or around the other, and both were just with each other for a passing moment.”
“I'm tired of the way we both pretend.
Tired of always wanting and never giving in.
I can feel it in my skin, see it in your grin.
We're more. We always have been.
Think of everything we've missed.
Every touch and every kiss.
Because we both insist.
Resist.”
“Apparently having emotions equated to having a vagina.”
“Your pain made you strong. It made you
passionate and alive. It made us both who we are. -Cade”
“Spence, I don't have balls. Good thing, too, because they'd look terrible in the lingerie I'm wearing.”
“But sometimes you don’t know what you’re looking for until it’s already knocked you flat on your back.”
“Oh how I had underestimated tender kisses.”
“Because you've got balls of steel.'
I hated when people said that, like it assumed strength and being a male were synonymous. There was strength in being a woman. 'Spence, I don't have balls. Good thing, too, because they'd look terrible in the lingerie I'm wearing.”
“Trust me. This was much better than the alternative. I’m exactly where I want to be.” He glanced down at me and gave me a half-smile.”
“Pain changes us. Mine made me want to be perfect, so that no one would ever want to leave me again.”
“The devil made me do it.
And by devil, I mean my uterus.”
“I'm angry that you keep pushing me away when I know you don't want to.”
“De rust waarvan ik in een bibliotheek zo geniet bestaat niet alleen uit stilte. Al dat papier dempt ieder geluid, maar ook het ruisen van mijn gedachten. Hun ongedurigheid vindt troost in de overmacht aan kennis langs de wanden. Die is zoveel groter dan ooit in mijn hoofd zal passen. Dat kalmeert me en herinnert mij eraan dat ik niet per se alles hoef te weten en begrijpen. Zoveel is al opgeschreven en ik heb het allemaal binnen handbereik. Daar hoef ik mij dus niet meer mee bezig te houden. Zelfs al zal ik nooit meer dan een fractie van al die feiten tot mij kunnen nemen, ze zijn er, het staat er, de wereld is gerubriceerd, en als ik er eens nodig iets uit moet begrijpen kan ik het opslaan. Als de werkelijkheid zo onder controle en verifieerbaar is, kan ik haar makkelijker loslaten. Misschien is dit wel het nut van al die schrijvers, dat zij vastleggen wat buiten mij is zodat ik mij, zolang ik me met hen omring, kan wijden aan wat in mij leeft.”
“Hey, you arrived safely?" Aideen asked when she answered.
I grinned. "No, we died. I'm callin' to tell you that you get to keep Storm forever now that I'm dead.”
“Sometimes coloring outside the lines can cost you ,' she said. 'Only you can figure out if it's worth it.”
“but if you love us
choose a younger bed
for I cannot bear
to live with you when I am the older one”
“She’s a forever kind of girl and I’m a just for the night kind of guy.”
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