“I can deal with anything, as long as I know it's the truth. It's the lies that are hard.”
“You're the first girl who's had the guts to touch my controls.”
“I want to be the one protecting you.”
“You have the poutiest lips I've ever seen."
"Pouty?' I snorted. "Like I look bratty?"
"Like you look kissable.”
“He nodded, his forehead fused with mine. "My head fogs when you kiss me like that. I can't think," he murmured.
"It does?" I grinned. "I like making your head fog." I kissed him again.”
“You feel control drain away like sand falling from your fingertips. You can't hold onto it. It's gone. And so are you.”
“But there you are. Helpless. Unable to defend yourself. Vulnerable. Victim.”
“Thirty minutes until I saw Weston. I shouldn't be this excited about a ride home.”
“It is ingeniously named, for it looks just as a cross would look if it looked like something else.”
“I believe anyone could light a cigarette from the sparks that fly from your eyes!”
“heaven.
“I’m right here.” That’s the first thing he says to me. Followed by, “I’m not going anyplace.” His hand is warm and strong, and when he slips it around mine, I remember to breathe.
“It’s all right,” he says softly. “You’re going to be okay, just--” He pauses and squeezes my hand. “Don’t move.”
I have no intention of moving.
I can’t.
My legs are wrapped around Ava’s bike, a tree branch is wedged in my face, there’s mud up my nose, and--
I think I’m dead.
Other than that, I’m fine.”
“If you cannot be compassionate to yourself, you will not be able to be compassionate to others. When we get angry, we have to produce awareness: “I am angry. Anger is in me. I am anger.” That is the first thing to do.”
“We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that could only have been the ocean smell. I felt so happy that I wasn't even afraid it wouldn't last.”
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