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21 " Before you, it’d been nobody. So just because I don’t know what your mouth tastes like yet doesn’t mean I haven’t thought about it. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to. "
― Mariana Zapata , All Rhodes Lead Here
22 " We go through things together, we don’t give up on one another, and not over something like this. Isn’t that right? "
23 " When you lose enough, you learn to take happiness where you can find it. You don’t wait for it to be handed to you "
24 " Maybe every day wouldn’t be perfect and it was naïve to expect that, but every day could be good. "
25 " The hand on the back of my head swept down my spine, palming the small of my back, and there was no way I was imagining the fact he hugged me tight. “Don’t ever do that again, Aurora. Do you hear me? I know you can do this all by yourself, but don’t. "
26 " I know how I want you to feel, but I’m not rushing you. I know how I feel. I haven’t changed my mind about anything, especially not you. I only want you to be sure of what you want. "
27 " He’d said the greatest way I could honor her life was by living mine, by being as happy as I possibly could. "
28 " Sometimes, maybe even more often than just sometimes, you were better off alone. Sometimes you had to learn to be your own best friend. To put yourself first. "
29 " Sometimes I think I know exactly what you’re going to say… and then the exact opposite comes out of your mouth,” he whispered back. Was he laughing? "
30 " His answer was a sigh followed by, “Because… I’ve been watching you grow for months. I don’t want to be something you grow around. You were with someone who gave you too much shade before, right? I’d rather us take our time than me stunt where you’re going, who you’re becoming. "
31 " The jacket wasn’t a diamond bracelet or a ruby necklace. It wasn’t some expensive purse picked blindly just because it was expensive. It wasn’t a new laptop I didn’t need because my old one was only a year old. These were things I needed. Things that he knew I needed. Things to keep me warm because that mattered to him. "
32 " I thought we’d decided your ex was a moron,” Rhodes murmured. “I hope someday that if I’m gone, someone loves me enough to miss me for the rest of their life. "
33 " You know… I was pretty sure I was in love with him. And I was pretty sure he might be a little in love with me too. "
34 " I don’t really have another choice. I figured I’d just cry and bleed all the way home. "
35 " I would set his Rolls-Royce on fire if I had the chance and sleep just fine. "
36 " How one decision that you don’t even make can affect another person’s life so dramatically. "
37 " Nobody in their right mind would let you walk away from them. Not once and no way in hell twice, angel. "
38 " Maybe that’s the thing about being a parent: you can just hope what you’ve done is enough. If you care. You hope that the love you gave them, if you really tried, will stay with your child when they’re older. That they can look back on what you did and be content. You hope that they know happiness. But there’s no way of knowing, is there? "
39 " more tears slid out of my eyes, "
40 " The small sounds of the birds in the trees were a reminder that there was more than just us. That life carried on in ways that had nothing to do with our human lives. "