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81 " We’re all doing our best. We’re exhausted, confused, and feeling like we’re constantly being judged by everyone else who looks like they’ve got it all figured out. But no one does. We’re all just making it up as we go. "
― Lucy Score , Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, #1)
82 " She didn’t understand that people could be more than one thing or like more than one thing. You can wear dresses and makeup and build rockets. You can dress in suits and play baseball. You can be a millionaire and work in your pajamas. "
83 " What have I always told you, Naomi? And you listen to this too, Way.” “When you look good, you feel good,” I recited. "
84 " We get a lot of older folks who don’t have access to their own eleven-year-olds to fix their phones and Kindles and tablets. "
85 " To break something on the outside instead of feeling all the cracks on the inside. "
86 " Because Knox didn’t want to be. Because when it came down to it, no one ever really chose me. "
87 " who the hell had given them "
88 " I’m serious. I pegged Knox and his baggage within thirty seconds of meeting him. But you carry yours closer. Like it’s in an emotional fanny pack. "
89 " Why are you whispering?” “Because he lives right there,” I said, pointing my glass in the direction of Knox’s cabin. “Oooh. Grumpy next-door neighbor. That’s one of my favorite tropes. "
90 " I was still inside her as I plotted how I was going to end it all. "
91 " There wouldn’t be a day in the rest of my life that I didn’t think about her. That I wouldn’t say her name in my head a dozen times just to remind myself that I had her once. "
92 " I’d never had a barber fetish before. I didn’t even know if that was a legitimate fetish. But watching those tattooed forearms, those dexterous hands work, I felt an annoying pulse of desire spark to life "
93 " If you’re finished mansplaining internal temperature, I’d like to go find my car, "
94 " And someday, I'm going to find the kind of man who wants an uppity, needy pain in the ass. One who wants to wade into my mess and stay for the duration. Obviously, you're not him. At least you told me that from the start. "
95 " Maybe someday I’d find a guy who both liked me and was willing to share the burden of taking care. "
96 " When I turned to leave, his hand shot out and caught my wrist. “Future reference, Daze. My problem is always you. "
97 " I understand,” she said. “I’m a lot. Waylay’s a lot. This whole thing is a lot. Even on my best day, I’m too much and yet not enough.” Her laugh was humorless. "
98 " I’d built up a fantasy in my mind. Taken afternoon coffees and whispered dirty talk to mean something else entirely. He didn’t want me. He never had. "
99 " Because sometimes people don't know how to ask for what they really need. You needed a hug.""No. I didn't".... "I needed you "
100 " What’s anyone’s problem? Baggage. People meet, sparks fly, then they spend all their time trying to hide who they really are so they can stay attractive. Then we’re surprised when it doesn’t work out.” She had a point. “If everyone just introduced themselves with their baggage, imagine how much time we’d save. "