“I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny.”
“You're not my words, Emma." I said, standing up and staring at the door while pretending to be gazing deep into her pretty hazel eyes. "But you're my numbers. You're all of my numbers." I paused, listened, and figured she had fallen asleep. "You're my infinity.”
“And I would stop and take you in, all of you, and when our eyes lock we'd just stare into each other's souls and all of the lost time would come out in the shape of a big smile, a few tears and a tight hug that feels like...
I don't know, it would feel like home.”
“It’s not real. Love is a product of habit and routine. If you break that habit and change those routines, the person you’ve loved and lost and can’t live without suddenly becomes an easy memory to file in the back of your mind . In other words, love isn’t a heart condition. It’s not even an emotional one. It’s just a four-letter word we use when we want to control someone else and ruin their life if we ever decide to walk out on them”
“...he knew that some decisions in life are made before you ever have a chance to think them through. And sometimes that's a good thing.”
“Yes, its long distance, yes it's a little inconvenient, but when all you've got is distance between you and your soulmate, that's not a bad thing, right?”
“Distance is something you can control; meeting your soulmate in the short span of a lifetime is something you can't”
“It's easy to think you love someone when the person you really want isn't there for you, at least not physically”
“I admired how perfectly matched they seemed to be, and I started to wonder about my own, personal definition of love. Had it been wrong? Had it been the cause of my misery all these years? Was it possible that I had somehow adopted a skewed version somewhere along the way?”
“Writers are always scrapping one word for a better one. Regular people just say stuff, they don't replace there words ever. Its the only way they know how to communicate.”
“...Love isn't a heart condition. It's not even an emotional one. It's just a four-letter word we want to use when we want to control someone else and ruin their life if we ever decide to walk out on them.”
“I think sometimes the stars align whether we want them to or not. And we're drawn to certain people and places for no other reason than...Destiny”
“...although stories are about characters, they're mostly about "character". There's a difference.”
“That sounds like love. Not being able to exist with the person you love. When you're spirit breaks and the physical world lacks any relevance.”
“But there was one revelation that came out od TXT4sex. And it was this: any idiot can write a book.
So that is what I did”
“But I won't judge you if you don't judge me”
“...there was no fucking chance I was going to hang out with Jennifer doing scrapbooking. I couldn't trust her with scissors for one thing.”
“A is for Asshole.
It's part of a series, Jennifer said”
“He was playing "Sick Day" with another women on his tenth -anniversary”
“A non-fucking fuck-friend, I guess. A non-friction friend.”
“I tasted perfection, like a Lindt chocolate with all that soft and tasty core. I wasn't sure what flavor would be "perfection," but it didn't matter because she wasn't a fucking a chocolate ball. In that moment, she wasn't even Emma, she was mine”
“You're a writer, though. Your words are malleable, replaceable, and by definition untrustworthy. they mean nothing to you and that's what I'm afraid I am to you, to Walter, to any man I have ever been with. A worthless word”
“For you, you have a toolbox filled with words. If one doesn't work, you find another one. Or another one. Or another. You change your words like most people change mobile phones. There is no permanence, no commitment, nothing sexy about any word that you use. And that's what I am: I'm your words, Morgan.”
“You're not my words Emma...But you're my numbers. You're all of my numbers...You're my infinity.”
“When drug dealers get killed—black or white—the public perception is that the victims simply got what was coming to them. When a young girl is raped and murdered—black or white—our knowledge of the primitive laws of attraction and male sexual dominance informs our response. But when middle-aged white people minding their own business are murdered in their home in the safest part of town, the fundamental order of Southern life is thrown out of balance.”
“Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.”
“cost reductions meant survival, but not profitability,”
“But then it came to her…just change your mind about it. About everything. Shit. That was it. "What an idiot she was. It was that simple. Just decide to stop struggling and embrace it all as a gift. And in a single second, everything is different.”
“Sleep and cry and rest no more For you have lived many storms before Run or crawl and find the sea Dive in the pleasure Let it set you free.”
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