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1 " She was my strength, my heart, my love. "
― Maya Hughes , Heartless King (Kings of Rittenhouse, #5)
2 " Responsible Colm was dying tonight in the bottom of several bottles. "
3 " Fuck that. I was going to live it the hell up. Now it was my turn for a little bad behavior. "
4 " But even then, she was painfully beautiful. The kind that made me doubt that we were even the same species.Delicate, ethereal, she was like an elf queen from Lord of the Rings. "
5 " He was drowning. I was his oxygen and he was gulping me down. "
6 " Who better than another broken person to look through the cracks in the armor he wore? Who better to make me feel something I hadn’t let myself feel in a long time? Alive. "
7 " Imogen was a dangerous element to introduce to my life. She made me feel whole when I wasn’t. She made me feel things were possible that weren’t. She made me want things I couldn’t have. "
8 " All I could see was the future. Our future. As a family. Waking up beside her. Candlelit picnics in the middle of my living room floor. Chasing her with the hose while washing my car when I was only looking for an excuse to wet her down and make out pressed against my car. Falling asleep with my arms wrapped around her everynight. "
9 " I’d never thought I’d feel this again. A warm, glowing ball grew in me with each rise and fall of her chest against mine. Home. "
10 " This felt good. It felt right. It felt like waking up to a day that wouldn’t be something I had to push myself through, but could run toward. "
11 " How had I lived without her? How had I thought what I’d felt before was love? Every glance, every smile, every touch was a gift with Imo. And I still didn’t believe I was lucky enough to receive it. "
12 " Every day is a gift. I don’t want you to miss out on the possibility of even more in your future. A future that isn’t only about your little one, but about you. Do you want to keep living a life that died with Preston? Or do you want to start something new with someone who obviously loves you? I know it’s scary. I know it’s hard.But you’re strong. Stronger than any of us have deserved. “We will support you no matter what you choose.We’ll love you no matter what you choose. But you need to decide how you want to live your life. Do you want to be looking back at what you’ve lost, or moving toward what you can create? "
13 " You can’t live your life afraid of what you might lose, because then you’ll never embrace everything you have to gain, and those are the memories that make it worth it. "