“Sometimes family hurts you more than they could ever love you.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“Money is just padding. It can be used to shelter you from some things, but there’s no sheltering from other things like love and kindness. Money has no effect on the real stuff.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“You’re like a mosquito that won’t die. Back up or I’ll swat you down.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“She’s the love of my life.” My heart was pumping so damn fast. I needed to see her.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“She had no idea just how rare she was.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“She said I wasn’t broken at all.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“They love you for the same reasons they don't love anyone else.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“I get to see her at night."
"No deal."
"That's the only deal. I sleep over."
"She's my daughter."
"She's the love of my life". My heart was pumping so damn fast I needed to see her.
David was searching my eyes.
I let him see the truth. I needed her. That was the only way.
"Fine, but only you. Logan can't start sleeping over, too."
"He'll try."
David groaned. "You two, you just storm your way in-"
"We're family to her. We took her in when you let her go. We protected her from that woman.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“They grow them like that nowadays? Sign me up to be a cougar.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“A growl came from the back of my throat. I looked like shit. I felt like shit. I wasn't ready to deal with her shit.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“Malinda moved so we were eye-level. "Forget the people who've hurt you. You don't have them anymore, but you have two others that'll do anything to you. Mason and Logan would move mountains for you. I see how you are with them. You love them, but you're scared to let yourself be happy. Why? Because that's when they'll leave? Is that what you think? You've got it all wrong. Those two will never leave you." She tapped my chest. Once. Twice. "You. You're the one that's going to hurt them. You have that power, and you don't know it. You could rip those two apart in a second, and they're the ones who are scared of you. Not the other way around. You need to recognize the real situation.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“Sometimes family hurts you more than they could ever love you. That’s a truth a lot of people don’t want to hear, but sometimes people get the opposite. They get the families that love you more than they could ever hurt you. Those people are the luckiest in the world. You know what pisses me off? Is that they probably don’t even know it. They don’t know how lucky they are, but, Sam, you’re one of them.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“A streak of bare flesh darted past our door.
Mason grinned at me. "It's like we didn't even miss Fisher's party tonight."
My nurse sprinted past our door, followed by another two.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“The bed dipped under his weight. He paused with one foot before shaking his head and mumbling, "I'm not going to be able to sleep. I'm going to be so damn scared that I'll hurt you."
It didn't matter. None of it mattered. When he shifted to his side and then reached for my hand, I closed my eyes. I could sleep now. Everything would work out. Our hands where tucked between us on the bed. I clung to his, while he seemed scared to hold mine back. That didn't matter either. I just needed to be held, a mere touch from him.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“You two are like a married couple."
Uh...I pointed to my head. "Heavy meds here. Say that again."
She rolled her eyes. "You heard me just fine. So did you," she threw to Mason.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“If Mark wasn't a cool guy, and if your dad hadn't got there first, I'd bang Mark's mom.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“I will move you.” “We’re not”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“She kept laughing all the way to her car, but I couldn’t move.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“Of course Mason and Logan followed me where I went.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“Logan had been there earlier and refused to leave, but Mason made him go. He wanted alone time with me when I woke. He said he pulled Boyfriend Rank. It would've been nice to see Logan, but I understood.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“He took a deep breath. I don't know what I'm supposed to do here. I don't know if I'm supposed to distract you. If I'm supposed to make you laugh, or if I'm supposed to be reassuring you. I have no idea what to do, so all I'm doing is just being here.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“Mom!" he cried out. She shrugged. You're not a virgin, and I'm promoting her pleasure as well. The girl will enjoy it a lot more. They don't always, you know." She scanned the rest of the table. "I'm sure you two bucks think you're the stud for all those does," she remembered me and amended,"well maybe just you and Logan, but I'm telling you. Girls fake it eighty percent of the time."
That opened a whole new channel of adoration from Logan. He wanted to know it all.
The rest of the conversation was a question and answer forum from Logan while Mark looked ready to throw up. I even caught Mason listening intently to her. He told me later that he'd be stupid to pass up information like that.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“He hasn’t even gotten to the good part. Parker, grab a bucket. Stick it between her legs. Shit’s going to fall any second now”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“You got beat up. Bones and bruises heal. Those girls didn't win because they didn't do what they wanted. They wanted to break you.
I was already broken.
"You're not broken at all.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“Sometimes family hurts you more than they could ever love you.”
― Tijan, Fallen Crest Public”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“Fuck this," Logan bit out before he shoved past the older Strattan. He started down the hallway and I went right after him. We weren't getting answers, not the ones we wanted. We'd find her ourselves.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“Logan laughed, and for the rest of the night, he flirted. Mason didn't care. I did. Mark seemed confused, and David shook his head.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“Bet you weren’t expecting this,” before my other hand grabbed the back of her head and used all my body weight to slam her head into the table.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
“What the hell was all of that about?” She meant the fight. I sighed. “I miss my dad.”
― Tijan, quote from Fallen Crest Public
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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. 9 p For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. 10[†] q “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, r giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, 11 so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but s it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.”
― quote from Study Bible-ESV
“Your choices of which clothes to wear or which soda to drink, where you live, which school to attend and what to study, and of course your profession all say something about you, and it’s your job to make sure that they are an accurate reflection of who you really are.
But who are you, really? The imperative “Just be yourself!” seems straightforward enough. (What could be easier than being who you already are?) Yet we often end up blinking in its headlights, perhaps frozen in place by the concomitant notion that we might, if we are not careful, turn into someone else. It’s difficult to move forward when each step could move us further away from the “authentic” self, and so we dither.”
― Sheena Iyengar, quote from The Art of Choosing
“I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.”
― Warsan Shire, quote from Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth
“The sages advise us to study Torah lishma-"for its own sake" rather than to impress others with our scholarship. A paradox of parenting is that if we love our children for their own sake rather than for their achievements, it's more likely that they will reach their true potential.”
― Wendy Mogel, quote from The Blessing Of A Skinned Knee: Using Timeless Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children
“Nobody really likes coffee. They just pretend to because drinking coffee makes them feel like a proper adult.”
― Holly Bourne, quote from Soulmates
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