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61 " Your mother is a selfish narcissist, your father dodged his responsibilities, you feel that my brothers used you and abandoned you, and you’re putting on a brave front all the while you’re fucking dying inside. "
― Kate Stewart , Exodus (The Ravenhood, #2)
62 " I know for sure that humility has changed me in a major way. And these lessons I haven’t taken for granted, even if I’ve been taken for granted in the process. "
63 " Collin. "
64 " That’s not…he would have… "
65 " I’m okay,” I say, running my fingers along his jaw and over his shoulders. “I really am okay. It’s time to suck it up and move on. But not one of my thousand dreams will include him.” “You think you are okay, but the truth is, that’s a blow you’ll feel in some degree for the rest of your life. "
66 " Don’t play stupid. You got arrested for going a hundred and three in a fifty and caught with nearly an ounce of weed. What do you call that?” “A fantastic Thursday afternoon? "
67 " And it’s past time that I remember how to kick… "
68 " You keep trying to give yourself, your heart, your allegiance away to anyone who will have it for reasons you can’t understand, but it’s so painfully clear. "
69 " But I won’t apologize for growing up thinking I deserved his love or for growing up period, and the choices I’ve made doing it. In believing in it. Because…how can love be a mistake?” A warm tear runs down my face as I finally look up at him. “Even if it’s not enough, if it’s more trouble than it’s worth, if it does me more harm than good, even if everyone I give myself to denies me, I refuse to believe it’s a mistake. "
70 " Money. The most necessary of evils that can completely change a person for better or worse. "
71 " Bitch has lost her mind,” one of the girls says from the garage. “You must’ve dicked her too good, Dom. "
72 " This is his revenge, on my father, on the brothers who disobeyed and purposely deceived him. On me for having an unknowing hand in it. And I’m letting him have it. I’m allowing my own degradation. "
73 " You think I’m childish? How childish is it to tell me I can’t take a turn on your playground? Especially with the price of admission tattooed on my back! "
74 " But if they only knew how much these men are risking daily, "
75 " The reckoning that it meant far more to me than it did to them was still a hard pill to swallow, "
76 " a sob erupting from me, "