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1 " Love has to be free. Alive like a butterfly, not pinned to a mount like the specimens I’ve been keeping for so long. "
― Jade West , Call Me Daddy
2 " And that’s what I’m really scared of. Of loving someone as much as this so quickly. Because if I can love him this much already, when I don’t even know him, not really, how much am I going to love him when I’m used to him being my everything? "
3 " Sometimes in life you have to let people take care of you. Sometimes you have to accept that people want to help, want to be there for you. Not "
4 " I’ll take you home,” I say, and my words are simple, obvious. I’m surprised when she follows me to the passenger door of the Merc and slips into the seat without hesitation, but she seems dazed somehow. Naïve, maybe. Maybe that’s what got her into this mess in the first place. I suspect as much.Young, naïve and vulnerable.No way should she be out alone this late at night. No way should she be here, in this shithole part of Brighton. I feel the anger, at some unknown parents who should be worried sick, parents who should have taught her more fucking sense.A father who should be driving around looking for his daughter, who should be protecting her from pieces of shit like that fucking waster back there.I ignore the twitch in my jaw. Push aside that feeling.She needs a ride home. Just a ride home. "
5 " The thought feels like warm marshmallows in my brain. "
6 " I’ll take you home,” I say, and my words are simple, obvious. I’m surprised when she follows me to the passenger door of the Merc and slips into the seat without hesitation, but she seems dazed somehow. Naïve, maybe. Maybe that’s what got her into this mess in the first place. I suspect as much. "