“It means that every waking breath you take, every step you take, you don't just take to move your own life forward, but ours. You take it knowing I'm right there with you, irrevocably tied to every decision you make.”
“Love. It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tough times worth working through.”
“Yes. Hopelessly in love with you. Get used to it. Marriage is forever.”
“I can't breathe without you, baby. You undo me and then put me back together whole again. You take it all, and you still love me for it.”
“This doesn't work. Being apart destroys us. I can't live without you Blake. I can barely survive a night without you. How am I supposed to risk losing you for a lifetime?”
“You're the only one who can bring me through this, because I've never trusted someone the way I trust you. I love you so much it hurts sometimes. You have to believe me, that you're the only one who can heal me, Blake.”
“Promises of his love, that he’d always protect me and keep me safe, filled the air around us until I believed it, with every ounce of my soul.”
“Love. It bloomed in small moments like this, making all the good times that much better, all the tough times worth working through. What I felt for this man took my breath away.”
“ All I've ever wanted, since the day we met, was your trust. I want to be there for you, to help you, protect you. I can't do any of that the way I need to when you fight me and push me back. ”
“ I want control, Erica. But I'm not going to take it from you. You have to give it to me. you opened the door. Now you have to walk through it. You've tried to draw this hard line between us, with work and our relationship, where you keep the amount of control you think you need. It ends now.”
“Blake could own me, he could hold something deep in me, but I knew I'd captured something precious in him too. Something he'd never given anyone else.”
“ I own you, Erica. Your heart, the blood that beats through it when I hold you down this way. Your body, the way it moves for me, comes for me. It's all mine. Say it. Tell me I own you, baby. ”
“the only place I could feel the pain was in my heart, the place where I’d wounded us both.”
“With all his kinks and maddening control issues, I loved this man. As much as he needed this, I needed to be this for him.”
“As soon as I'd walked out of my normal working life and into the apartment we now shared, I went to war with damn near every instinct I had. I handed over all control to the man I loved, trusting that he'd take care of us both. He always did, but sometimes I couldn't resist the urge to push back just a bit, so he knew I was still there, fighting.”
“De fiecare dată când respiri sau când păşeşti, o
faci pentru a împinge înainte vieţile amândurora, nu doar pe a ta. O
taci ştiind că eu sunt chiar lângă tine, irevocabil legat de fiecare hotărâre pe care o iei.”
“De fiecare dată când respiri sau când păşeşti, o faci pentru a împinge înainte vieţile amândurora, nu doar pe a ta. O faci ştiind că eu sunt chiar lângă tine, irevocabil legat de fiecare hotărâre pe care o iei.”
“Make no mistake, what’s yours is mine. I don’t need a legal document to make me feel any safer in our marriage. If you decide to divorce me and rake me over the coals, I’m not sure any amount of money would ease the pain of losing you. It’s a non-issue for me.”
“Either way, I couldn’t let him leave me, and if I had to kneel to make him stay, I would.”
“Are you a risk? Usually when you leave me, you just take my heart. That’s the biggest risk of all, I’d say.”
“I wanted to be everything for him, even in these dark moments when nothing made sense but the demands of our flesh.”
“For better or worse, we’d ended those nights together. Not last night, and when he left me alone, we’d crossed a line. He’d breached some new invisible boundary I’d never known was there.”
“It means that every waking breath you take, every step you take, you don’t just take to move your own life forward, but ours. You take it knowing I’m right there with you, irrevocably tied to every decision you make.”
“Listen to your heart, Erica. There’s nothing but noise in this world, and that’s got to be the one steady voice in our lives. If your heart says yes, nothing else matters.”
“You make me happy, so yes. The less of you I have to share, the better.”
“His green eyes were dark and dilated, and they locked with mine. I saw him then - the man, but also the animal that lived below the surface.”
“• “As soon as I'd walked out of my normal working life and into the apartment we now shared, I went to war with damn near every instinct I had. I handed over all control to the man I loved, trusting that he'd take care of us both. He always did, but sometimes I couldn't resist the urge to push back just a bit, so he knew I was still there, fighting.”
“Don't worry baby, I'm not leaving. Now when you're spread out for me like a fucking banquet.”
“Marriage, to me, implied stability, something sure and reliable. Happily ever after and all good things.”
“Blake Landon was my drug, my obsession-a habit I had no intentions of ever quitting.”
“But man, proud man,
Dress'd in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd—
His glassy essence—like an angry ape
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,
Would all themselves laugh mortal.”
“We must bask in the magnificence of what is seen and sensed, instead of always memorizing and categorizing.”
“I was on the verge of jumping into one of those holes in life out of which we emerge a bit tattered and bloody, though we remain sure nonetheless that we had to make the jump.”
“In our time women can demonstrate prowess in a thousand ways. Long ago the great Princess Sun of Ping fought for her father, the August Sovereign. At her funeral, His Majesty called for the trumpets and drums to be sounded, an honor reserved for men. My dear, from this day you must dress her as a boy. Give her an education worthy of her own determination.”
“If you have a bad feeling about something… If your gut is twisting at the idea of following through with a bad choice… Just say no. Do not be a yes person.”
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