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1 " This wasn't about him being decent enough to inquire as to my preferences. It was about me recognizing I deserved to engage with people who paid attention to me and my preferences. "
― Kate Canterbary , Boss in the Bedsheets
2 " I wanted to know what I wanted and where I belonged and who the fk I was after all these years of searching and shrinking down to fit the tiny crevices available to me. "
3 " You prefer things to be"—she held her thumbs and forefingers an inch apart—"just so. You need someone who can organize your things and prepare it all such that you're able to go ahead and do everything because you don't trust anyone to do anything correctly. I am wonderful when it comes to handling egomaniac micromanagers. I have lots of experience in that arena and I don't notice the toxic air quality of being treated like I'm incompetent anymore. I adapt to shit situations shockingly well. "
4 " I'm going to assist the shit out of you," I announced. "I hope you're ready for the full force of me and my sanctimonious assisting."He gave his watch another baleful stare before glancing over at me. "I'm not sure how I could possibly prepare for something like that."I nodded. "Fair point. "
5 " He was salty as fuck and secretly adorable and he didn't look at me like I was a shopping cart with a wonky wheel. He looked at me like I was magic.All the pieces fit, save for him being my boss and me being in the most discombobulated stage of my life imaginable. Just those teeny, tiny, wee issues. "
6 " I wanted to take the energy crackling between us and make it explode, and I couldn't say I cared if I burned in the process. "
7 " I've figured out you're something I need," I replied helplessly. "And I think I might be something you need too. "
8 " Quiet now, love. Let me have you. Let me keep you. "
9 " I'm not overwhelming. You were overwhelmed. That's about you, not me."… “Okay, yeah. I was overwhelmed. I was fucking leveled by you—and I still am. "
10 " Is it possible that making you feel better will also succeed in making me feel small and powerless? Because I have to tell you, I just climbed out of that box and the process was grueling. You're not going to put me back in there only to unbox me when you want a bad bitch in bed. "
11 " I still didn't believe in signs, not the ones outside of mathematics, but I believed in Zelda. More than that, I believed in me and Zelda. Us, together. Always. "
12 " It happened the way everything happens. It's a series of tiny steps and little things that aren't okay but there's no sense making big issues out of them. It's expecting things to get better once you reach a certain point or when difficult times have passed. It's inches and inches and inches that add up to miles in the wrong direction but once you realize it you're so far down that path you're not sure how to reverse course. "
13 " Perhaps growing and healing was nothing more than making one right choice after another, even when those choices felt like the opposite of everything I'd always done. "
14 " I could taste the way he wanted me. It was a smoky heat, almost bitter, like he'd burned for me all this time and could only now show me the charred truth. "
