“If something or someone is presented to us once, we will often dismiss it as being nothing more than happenstance. If that person or situation is presented twice, it is God slapping us in the face and telling us to pay attention. It is fate.”
“I would much rather be perceived as being great at a few things than be a failure at many.”
“I know who you are. I know what you do to me. Just having you near me fixes everything that is broken inside of me. All of my fucked up little pieces become one.”
“Get your little sticky note pad and get a new note, Kace. Write this on it. I’m coming, Kace. I’m coming for your heart,”
“When walking away from something we were once committed to, we often hesitate. Deciding to make a major change in life is difficult. But we all reach a point when we’re done - done giving to a world that only takes. Until then, you’ll want, you’ll wait, and you’ll contemplate change. When you’re truly done, you’ll know. You’ll know when the time comes.”
“When you least expect it, life may propose something to you. Something you might not necessarily be looking for, but without a doubt has the ability to offer your life some form of enrichment.”
“I’m coming for your heart, Kace,”
“Being able to discern the good decisions from the bad decisions, in advance, would be priceless.”
“I trembled. I was done. This was it. I wanted to die, right here in the kitchen, beside my precious basil.”
“He could take advantage of me at any point in time that he preferred; the fact that he didn’t made me both admire him and hate him both.”
“I like your face. You’re beautiful. And, if you ever get confused and can’t talk, tap your hand once for yes, and twice for no.”
“If it is worth doing, it is worth doing right. Be the best you can be at whatever it is you choose to do.”
“Without reading, I would go crazy - completely crazy. My Kindle had become my savior.”
“Babe, it’s time,” he said as he reached down and began to remove his ragged boots.”
“Boxing is a sport, and nothing more than a contest between two men – a contest of strength, stamina, willingness, and raw talent.”
“Sometimes we make decisions and we think that the decisions we make are to our benefit. Other times, we make decisions and at the time we make them, they seem to be what makes sense, and later we find out they weren’t such a good idea. Being able to discern the good decisions from the bad decisions, in advance, would be priceless.”
“Shane Dekkar. A man to define what all men should desire to become. Perfection, defined.”
“If you ever lay a hand on me. Slap me, hit me, grab me, push me, anything. I’m gone. I’ll leave you and never come back.”
“To dream of what could be.”
“His hands massaged my back as I looked into his eyes. His eyes were the strangest color of grey. They were almost a translucent grey/blue.”
“Line every one of them up – every single one who abuses a woman, child, or the elderly and I’ll beat them senseless one person at a time. “So,”
“His strongest belief was the fact women are not to be abused, ever - verbally, mentally, morally or physically. I believed the exact same thing.”
“Eyes, grey. Grey. Like your eyes. Your eyes,”
“But I am not perfect in my way of putting things
Because I lack the divine simplicity
Of being only what I appear to be.”
“He was astonishingly vain even by fair folk standards, which was like saying a pond is unusually wet, or a bear surprisingly hairy.”
“We still believe that to be considered successful, by our peers and by ourselves, we need material badges of success—and that still means a lot of stuff. The”
“But if she has to try too hard, perhaps its the universe's way of telling her this isn't to be. She doesn't believe in God, but she believes in a natural order, a higher directive, to be gleaned and mulled and acted upon.”
“I’ve been so busy I haven’t managed to contact her since this morning, but she’s been hovering at the edge of my consciousness all day, like a guardian angel. My guardian angel. Ever present but not intrusive.”
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