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1 " I will always be an addict even if you put the word ‘recovering’ in front of it. I will always have to work ten times as hard to be trusted, to be trustworthy but that’s the price I have to pay for my mistakes. "
― Emma Scott , Forever Right Now
2 " The universe is listening. You get back what you put in. Negative shit gets you negative shit. Positive energy begets positive energy. Whatever you put out there in the universe, it listens. And then it answers. So when I talk,I try to give it something it wants to hear and hope it answers with something I want to hear. "
3 " Acceptance is a kind of love too. "
4 " Do you ever wish you could take a moment and keep it forever? Like right now…how you taste on my mouth, and your hands on me, and your eyes…God, Sawyer, the way you’re looking at me… If I could have just one moment, one feeling, and live in it forever, I would choose this one. "
5 " Forgetting is pretending it never happened. You need to remember and remember and remember, until it has no power over you anymore. "
6 " I couldn't speak; I only nodded, and it sent a tear sliding down my cheek, to her hand. "See?" she said with a quavering smile. "You feel so much, Sawyer. So much." She wiped the tear into her palm. "I'm going to keep this," she said, then turned and walked away. "
7 " You deserve to be loved as you are, Darlene. Not in bits and pieces. "
8 " Sawyer nodded, his eyes sweeping over my face. Then he abruptly took my face in his hands and kissed me. Hard. A kiss I felt in every part of me, like a sudden rush of electricity, surging through me and leaving me breathless. He kept his forehead to mine after he broke apart, his own breath coming hard. “A tornado, Darlene,” he whispered. “I’m swept up.” Then he pulled away, shouldered his bag, and got on the bus. "
9 " and keep it forever? Like right now…how you taste on my mouth, and your hands on me, and your eyes…God, Sawyer, the way you’re looking at me… If I could have just one moment, one feeling, and live in it forever, I would choose this one. "
10 " I couldn't speak; I only nodded,and it sent a tear sliding down my cheek, to her hand. "See?" she said with a quavering smile. "You feel so much, Sawyer. So much. "She wiped the tear into her palm. "I'm going to keep this," she said, then turned and walked away. "
11 " Henrietta once told me that it was hard for a person to imagine a better life than the one he had; to really know and feel that it was possible. It was the reason, she said, so many people worked so hard just to stay where they were. They never reached out for what they really wanted because they believed what they wanted was out of reach. But it wasn’t. Like words written on a mirror: Objects may be closer than they appear. "
12 " Everything good in my life is because of you. How do I thank you for that?”“You don’t, silly. Just love me, Sawyer. "
13 " The music is the language and your body speaks the words. "
14 " Worse, she was the kind of person who thought she no longer had anything left to learn in dance, or life in general. The kind of person who began almost every sentence with “I know. "
15 " What you have here is a unicorn eating four-leaf clovers while shitting rainbow turds in the shape of winning lottery numbers. "
16 " I’m scared shitless…and yet when I’m with you, I see something real. For the first time in my life, I want whatever we have to be real. "
17 " She gave a little gasp and her lips parted for me. I deepened the kiss, while wondering how I’d lived twenty-four years without having kissed her before.Kissing Darlene was kissing all of her. I tasted the sweetness of her, the energy she put into her art. Her breath suffused my mouth and I inhaled her.This is life. "
18 " Not this time.” I said, gruffly. “Hold on to me.” She raised her eyes to mine, uncertain. “Sawyer…” “And I’ll hold on to you, okay?” I said. “Just as tightly. "
19 " Max led me underground and we took a Muni train— "
20 " Do you ever wish you could take a moment and keep it forever? Like right now… how you taste on my mouth, and your hands on me, and your eyes… God, Sawyer, the way you’re looking at me… If I could have just one moment, one feeling, and live in it forever, I would choose this one. "