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1 " This was why a guy needed to wear sneakers. He needed to have the appropriate footwear ready to go when it was time to rush toward the rest of his life. "
― Cambria Hebert , #FinishLine (GearShark, #5)
2 " Happiness was attainable for anyone who had enough courage to reach for it. Just because I had to reach further than some only made it that much more appreciated. Today, in this moment, I was wrapping both hands around my happiness, grabbing it tight. Hopper’s "
3 " want to give him that security. I want to give him somewhere he absolutely belongs, you know? I want him to have my name. I want to be legally bound to him so if…” I cleared my throat. “If anything ever happens to me, everything I have will go to him without fight.” “And "
4 " What if I'm leading you out into the woods to kill you and dump your body?""Morbid," I mocked, "And I have to say if that's the plan then you're fucked because your getaway plane just took off without you." He chuckled and I sighed. "Guess it would be a good way to go then—at the hand of a man I love more than life itself." There was a beat of immeasurable silence. "Killing you would be like killing myself. "
5 " Guilt. An emotion that seemed to be the bane of my existence, my cross to bear. Everyone had one, didn't they? Everyone probably hated theirs. I did mine. Of course, that made me feel guilty too. "
6 " Anywhere with you, with any conversation, even the darkest kind, is exactly where I will always want to be. "
7 " Guilt.An emotion that seemed to be the bane of my existence. My cross to bear. Everyone had one, didn’t they?Everyone probably hated theirs.I did mine. ‘Course, that made me feel guilty, too. "
8 " What if I’m leading you out into the woods to kill you and dump your body?”“Morbid,” I mocked. “And I have to say if that’s the plan, then you’re fucked because your getaway plane just took off without you.”He chuckled, and I sighed. “Guess it would be a good way to go, then, at the hand of a man I love more than life itself.”There was a beat of immeasurable silence. “Killing you would be like killing myself. "
9 " It doesn’t matter how far or how long you run. The past always has a way of catching up. And usually at the most inopportune times. "
10 " Life doesn’t always give a man what he wants. Instead, he is given what he needs. "
11 " My name might be Arrow, but it was Hopp who’d pierced my heart like one. I "
12 " could say it over and over how much I loved him. How profoundly he changed my life. I could cover all my skin with tattoos representing something about him I truly loved, but there still wouldn’t be enough room. I couldn’t possibly explain to Hopper just how much my entire universe revolved around him because there wasn’t an equation that existed big enough to compute the sum. “You "