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1 " What we deny owns us. You can’t control what you don’t first own and face. You simply delay the moment it owns you. "
― Lisa Renee Jones , I Belong to You (Inside Out, #5)
2 " know I’ll never fully control her, and the very thing that would have made her wrong for me in the past is the very thing that makes her what I want and need now. She is freedom. She is passion. She is the safe place where I can be the man I’ve tried to deny beneath the Master persona, and failed. "
3 " her, she’s become such a part of my life that no matter how I fight it, or her, she’s in my blood—a part of why I exist. Yet so is Rebecca. I don’t understand it, and I do not like things that I don’t understand. "
4 " I have that sense of connection with her. "
5 " Your staying or leaving doesn’t impact the premise of your demand, which seems to be that I have no control over myself. That’s wrong. I decide who destroys me, not you, Mark Compton. "
6 " True confidence means you’re prepared to work hard enough and smart enough to make your own thunder. You don’t need someone else’s. "
7 " unreadable. “I’ve always said my mother is the biggest bitch on the hill, and the kindest flower in the garden. "
8 " You use arrogance and control to hide the real you. But I’ve seen you. I know you. "
9 " Then he says, “In a way, no one else has. No one. "
10 " You’re the one thing keeping me grounded. "
11 " Mark’s navigating dark and stormy waters, and I’m either going to pull him out, or drown with him. I don’t know which. "
12 " I hear cavemen lose their alpha if they go without food for too long. "
13 " No more. There is no in between. "