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1 " I loved her laugh. It was bubbly and girlish, and it made me want to pick her up, put her in my pocket, and carry her around with me just so I could hear it all the time. "
― Melanie Harlow , If You Were Mine (After We Fall, #3)
2 " You might not be a bombshell, but you are definitely a bullet, possibly even a small grenade. "
3 " I’ve made a thousand mistakes in my life, and I might make a thousand more, but walking away from you won’t be one of them. I don’t deserve you, but if you were mine, I’d spend every last damn day of my life trying. "
4 " I talked myself out of so many things because I looked at them as opportunities to fail, not as opportunities to succeed. I was so afraid to fall that I never let myself fly. "
5 " What did it mean to love someone? What kind of power did that give someone over you? What kinds of ways could loving someone come back to haunt you? What kinds of ways could the beloved hurt you? By confessing your love, weren’t you essentially telling someone I need you? I don’t want to lose you? I’m vulnerable to you? It was like laying down all your weapons and asking for them to be used against you, wasn’t it? "
6 " But this was me—the real, behind-the-curtains me. I bruised easily, felt things deeply, and cried when I was sad. I had no desire to hide that. "
7 " Theo’s face turned a deep shade of purple. He seemed completely unnerved by my mother, which I found kind of funny. "
8 " Sex without a condom was just a physical symbol of an emotional barricade destroyed. "
9 " The truth was, I was much better at perceiving how other people felt than I was at self-reflection. "
10 " You don't have to be anyone else. You just have to stop staring over the edge and jump. "
11 " You feel so good,” she breathed, running her hands all over me. “I can’t get enough.” “Try,” I told her. "
12 " The guys looked attractive and not too serial-killery, and there were plenty of testimonials from satisfied customers. "
13 " I was mad at my father for taking out his rage on his children, for not teaching us how to be men. "
14 " Love is real and it’s powerful enough to conquer any odds. "
15 " Claire had this strange effect on me—she made me want to fuck her and protect her from guys like me at the same time. She made me want to break my rules. She made me wish I was someone else…someone worthy. "
16 " Twenty bucks says that's the singles table." She nodded toward a table of awkward, miserable-looking people.No one was talking, and everyone was staring at their phones, save the one guy who was making some sort of swan out of his napkin. "Wow," I said. "I should have charged you more. "
17 " It was both a reunion and a new beginning. A dream remembered and a story not yet told. "
18 " Don't apologize. It's good you see the potential beyond the surface of things. That's a gift. "
19 " You're looking for a destination; I like the journey. I don't want it to end. "
20 " What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well. Antoine de St. Exupery "
