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1 " Inside five days, she became my left hand, and she loved it. It was a good thing she had no idea what I was doing with my left hand when she wasn’t around. "
― Kate Canterbary , The Space Between (The Walshes, #2)
2 " Mentoring Andy would be the cruelest form of punishment. "
3 " When it broke us, it wasn't the kind of break that healed neatly. It was the quiet shattering of a frozen-over pond protesting too much weight, all tiny fissures racing out from the impact site until the ice dropped out and chilled emptiness rushed in. "
4 " Close friendships were not my strength and I was exceptionally picky about the people in my circle. I possessed enough self-awareness to recognize that keeping people at a certain distance was a measure of preservation formed from years as an outsider. I've always been a little out of the ordinary. "
5 " I noticed the boots. I noticed them and the long legs encased in them about four seconds after I ripped my eyes away from her hair. They went all the way up to her knees. All I could think about was wrapping those legs around my neck and feeling those ridiculous heels digging into my back while she writhed against my face.Yep. That was a normal thought for the start of an interview. "
6 " I didn’t look at her, I wouldn’t think about her hair, and how I wanted it in my hands. Or her eyes, and how I wanted them wide and hungry. Or her mouth, and how I wanted it on my cock.I glanced at the ground, my eyes landing on her feet. Steel-toed boots. Seemed appropriate for the girl with the spine of steel.And I wanted them over my shoulders. "
7 " What was it that Hunter S. Thompson said? Something about no sympathy for the devil? Thompson was wrong. I wasn't forgiving, excusing, or justifying. I understood, and for the first time in my life, I sympathized with that particular devil. "
8 " If bad was spilling a piping hot latte over a laptop, subsequently frying thirty new designs without backing them up, and if very bad was ordering fifty grand’s worth of the wrong marble slabs, then very, very bad was letting my boss go down on me in his sister’s bathroom. As "
9 " The truth was his work got me fired up about historical preservation and its place in sustainable design. His master’s thesis was my favorite bedtime story through undergrad and I pulled it out whenever I needed inspiration. "
10 " My elbow ached, and my fingers were numb around the toy’s base when I finally deposited it on my side table. My other hand continued circling my clit—after a week of nightly self-love sessions, the last things I needed were raw, chafed ladybits. That and a bout of carpal tunnel syndrome, and I’d be the spokeswoman for crimes against orgasms. I laughed out loud at the prospect of telling Patrick I couldn’t sit down or operate a screwdriver because I tweaked my wrist and elbow after an hour of furious orgasm hunting. I could see him narrowing his eyes at me while he crossed his arms over his chest. He’d lift an eyebrow, letting the tension rise between us and waiting for me to explain myself. "
11 " Do not misinterpret the Ivy League educations or Boston Magazine covers or the fact they're generally put-together, functional adults. They're little orphans in nice clothes who know how to use big words. "
12 " I dug in with increasingly outlandish questions—problems I was trying to bend my brain around—with the perverted hope I’d break that cool. Didn’t happen, and I couldn’t explain why I was determined to shake her. See her ruffled. Get her flustered. "
13 " I’d never seen so much hair in my life. Thick, dark, uncontrollably curling. It was mythical. Odysseus would have had something to say about that hair. "
14 " He broke, just like the rest of us, only those cracks deepened and spread over time whereas most of our cracks healed in strange, arthritic ways. "
15 " Sometimes, talking to people wasn’t easy for me, especially idiots, "
16 " Just my two cents, but we shouldn't refer to it as the 'Witch is Dead' party outside this room. You know, basic respect for the dead and other things we don't seem to possess. We might be thoroughly fucked up, but that doesn't mean we need to broadcast it to the world. "
