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1 " A happy story doesn’t always have a happy ending, "
― A. Meredith Walters , One Day Soon (One Day Soon, #1)
2 " You’re not the same. Neither of us are. But I know that I will love the man as much as I loved the boy. "
3 " Even when I had nothing, he was everything. "
4 " You’re my smile, Imi. Always have been.” He kissed me with abandon. A passion unleashed. “Always will be,” he murmured into my mouth. "
5 " And she never knew that in all those years, my soul was always, forever hers.As my days dwindled into nothing, she was my constant.She had no idea that everything I was would always revolve around her.That when things were at their bleakest, she had always been, would always be, my happy life. "
6 " I know who you are in here. I trusted the eighteen-year-old boy who made sure I was fed. Who protected me. Who loved me. And I trust the man he became. Sure, people can change, but I see who you are. "
7 " Maybe after all these years I was still just that girl standing in the rain. Waiting for a boy who would never come. "
8 " It feels like I’m falling, Imi,” he breathed. “I’ll catch you,” I promised. "
9 " But if I can’t have that dream with you, will you live it anyway? "
10 " Years had passed; I should have long since let go. But how did you let go of something that never really felt over? How did you let go of someone that had changed you from the inside out? "
11 " The boy I loved … My savior. My protector. He had helped me when he didn’t have to. He had taken care of me. He had made sure I was warm. Fed. That I had a place to lay my head at night. Even when he couldn’t keep himself safe, he made sure that I had been. He put me first. Always. God, I had missed him. "
12 " I won’t leave you, Imi, not ever. You and me, we’re a definite. I don’t have anything if I don’t have you. You have to believe that. "
13 " We’ll walk on the beach, Imi, and we’ll dance on the sand. Because one day soon, I promise you that all this ugly will become something beautiful.”…“I know, Yoss. One day soon”. "
14 " Seize the moments you’re given, otherwise the world will eat you up and spit you out. "
15 " No matter how horrified she had been, her love held her prisoner. It was up to me to set her free. "
16 " We had felt like a force of nature. Unstoppable. Destined. We thrived on the passion and confidence of youth that left no room for doubt. We loved each other. And in the ugly world we had inhabited, it was a light we had clung to. "
17 " Here was a boy barely holding himself together. He seemed as though he wanted to curl into himself. I wanted to shield him from everything horrible. Everything ugly. Just as he had been trying to do for me.…He was someone who had been forced to make choices that would shatter most people. I could see the fragments being chipped away little by little as he struggled to hold on. "
18 " And like the messed up dude in that novel, I just want to live forever as long as it’s with you. "
19 " Are you my girl?” He sounded breathless. His whole body vibrating with anticipation. “How can I be your girl when you haven’t even kissed me yet?” I asked boldly. “I’m scared to kiss you,” he whispered, his lips quivering, his green eyes full.…“I want to be yours,” I told him sincerely. Yoss reached up and covered my hand with his. “I want to be yours,” he echoed. "
20 " What Yoss and I had shared was more than first love. It was deeper than adolescent lust and affection. It had been soul changing.Life altering.It had been a reckless attachment during bleak, dangerous times. It had been a light in a murky darkness that had almost consumed us both. "
