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21 " What kind of person does it make me if I accept words I know are lies? Because I know they are. He’s absolutely honest with me about everything but loyalty. "
― Mary Elizabeth , Innocents (Dusty, #1)
22 " I love you more than she does, cocaine whispers. "
23 " If he’s in love with me, why does he need her? I’m here. I’m love. What is she? "
24 " Alone, we’re us: an innocent secret made of bad habits spread across his bed. "
25 " My girl has that effect on us. She’s the friend my sister needs, the daughter my mom wants, a child my dad doesn’t feel guilty about, and the reason my heart beats. Leighlee Bliss is the pièce de résistance. She’s our saving grace. She’s my pulse and my nervousness and my … everything. "
26 " I love your heart,” he tells me, making it beat. “And your heart loves me. "
27 " Bliss leads me to contentment and promises me forever. And I believe her. Because love is a lot of things, but above all, love is what we make it. And we’ll make this never ending. "
28 " Because I love you, nobody else will ever touch me. Even though you are constantly touched. "
29 " The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. "
30 " All three of them hold the smoke in their lungs, coming a little closer, a little closer, and a little closer, until they are right in front of my face. Thomas holds up his hand, counting: one, two … On three they blow smoke in my face. I gasp. They do it four more times. "
31 " I know that sex doesn’t equal love or respect . I know this prudent, adoring side of Dusty that no one else even thinks he’s capable of, and I know as well that there’s nothing I can do to stop him from being him. "
32 " Love for him doesn't listen to logic, practicality, or consequence. It's a lot like him in that way, our love. It wants what it wants, when it wants it. And when in wants, it needs. "
33 " It feels immense, whatever this is. Like a cliff, but also like home base – unstable, but essential. "
34 " Love knows. Love feels the pull that’s impossible to defy. Love is the pull. "
35 " You were made to love me, Leigh," he says quietly, as if his touch leave any room inside me for doubt. "It's why you were born. "
36 " Love. Fucking love. Love feels like tingles and sunrays. It’s a tightness in my chest and an extra beat of my heart. Love is completeness—sappiness. Better than the best chocolate ever. "
37 " You have my heart. There’s nothing else. "
38 " Love for him doesn’t listen to logic, practicality, or consequence. "
39 " It's this, our secret. We're the drug. "
40 " Do you feel that? Do you feel how fast it beats?" I do. "You make my heart flutter, princess." I feel it. "