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21 " Tears are the language of grief. And grief is the language of love. "
― Parker S. Huntington , Darling Venom
22 " I’d never met an inanimate object as talented at breaking hearts as a book. "
23 " Here’s a life lesson I’d never wanted to learn. Our secrets are nothing but a string of memories we wish to forget. "
24 " Ob-gyns don’t have the best dirty talk game in the world, huh?”My back was to Tate when he answered me. “Bet you all the pennies in your cheap little purse that I can make you drip cum on my face in less than ten seconds—before I even use my tongue or cock. "
25 " It was difficult to reconcile the existence of fairness when Tate Marchetti had been born with an assault rifle for a cock. Thick, hard, and longer than should be legal. "
26 " If you keep staring at my cock with your mouth open like that, I’m going to take it as an invitation to enter.” My mouth watered. “Please, do. "
27 " she tasted like sweet venom. warm and cottony and dream-like. deadly toxic. gorgeously addictive "
28 " her presence soothed me where i normally burned "
29 " People fall in love every day. Good people. Bad people. All the colors in between. They love fast, and hard, and deeply. And sometimes, they are lucky enough to be loved back. "
30 " There was nothing to say. The final crack to the mirror had been dealt. We couldn’t fix it. We were irreparably damaged. "
31 " realized, with depressing clarity, that she wasn’t the venom at all. She was the antidote. But the quantities were all off. "
32 " A morsel of what I wanted to happen flashed behind my lids. Us. Tangled in the jungle gym. Screwing on the swings. Him, eating me out on the slide. I needed to run straight to my room, do fifty Hail Marys, and bathe in holy water. This was the playground I brought Jonah’s daughter to once a week. I’d never be able to play with Rowling there again. "
33 " My pinky brushed his. I stuck it out, letting it drag along his skin before retreating. His bumped mine. Was it sad that I considered this foreplay? "
34 " That was the thing about despair. It built up like a Jenga tower. Higher and higher, on shaky ground. One bad move, and you were toast. "
35 " This is not the beginning of something,” Kellan warned. “If anything, it’s the end. "
36 " Dementia, stroke, organ failure. If I lose those fights, I’m brave. But the thing I’m battling is my mind. And if I lose, they’ll just call me weak. "
37 " More importantly—she was finally coming to terms with the cover she’d been dealt with in life and remembering what the most important part of the book was. The spine. "
38 " You're breathing, Charlie. You are breathing, and it is beautiful, and I am so grateful for that. "
39 " Opportunity lasts a moment. Regret lasts a lifetime "
40 " You can’t love someone who doesn’t love herself. "