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“You can’t be friends with the person you were meant to spent your life with”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“Love isn’t only love, sweetheart. It’s hard work, and trust, and tears, with even a few glimpses of devastation. But at the end of each day, if you can still look at the person at your side and can’t imagine anyone else you’d rather have there, the pain and heartache and the ups and downs of love are worth it.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“I’ll be here, each day and every day on, as long as you want me to be”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“It’s not hard to recognise something special when life’s thrown a lotta shit your way”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“How does a guy like you promise someone forever at eighteen?”

“Easy,” he said, pressing a soft kiss into the corner of my mouth. “He finds a girl like you.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“Love isn’t easy. Especially the really good kind. It’s difficult, and you’ll want to rip your hair out just as many days as you’ll feel the wind at your back. But it’s worth it. It’s worth fighting for. Don’t let what isn’t real blind you from what is. Life isn’t perfect, we sure as shit aren’t perfect, so why should we expect love to be?”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“You’ve got all my firsts,” he said. “All the ones that matter.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“It always amazes me how when we’re sure we’ve lost something for good, it winds up finding us.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“The name’s Jude Ryder, since I know you’re all but salivating like a rabid dog to know, and I don’t do girlfriends, relationships, flowers or regular phone calls. If that works for you, I think we could work out something special.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“When you find someone you want to spend forever with you, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day or a year of fifty years. Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“The thing was, if staying away from him made me unsmart, I never wanted to be smart again.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“Honey, a girl can’t keep a man like that as a friend. He’s a lover or an ex-lover, but never a friend. Men like that weren’t created to be a woman’s friend – they were created to make a woman hit high C three times in row.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“Mom told me that love is like a seed. You've got to plant it to grow. But that's not all. You need to water it. The sun needs to shine enough, but not too much. The roots have to take hold," he continued, narrowing his eyes in concentration. "And from there, if it pops its head above the surface, there are about a million things that could kill it, so it takes a whole lot of luck too.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.”
― Nicole Williams, Lost & Found

“This man was the pope, president, and god of dodging the topic. Too bad for him he was dealing with the queen, holy mother, and empress of seeing through a man’s stream of shit.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“I know I’m one royal screw up, and god knows there’s nothing I could ever do to deserve you,” he began, taking my hand in his after sliding the ring free from the chain.

“But I want you, Lucy Larson. Bad. I want you forever. The kind of bad I have for you isn’t the kind that goes away.” His forehead lined, his eyes washing silver. “Ease my suffering. Make me the happiest, most tortured man in the world. Marry me?”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“If I ever mess things up again, whether it’s a misunderstanding, or shit luck, or I just do what I was created to do and screw everything up,” he paused, exhaling, “I want you to promise me you’ll leave. Drop me like a bad habit and don’t look back because god knows, it can’t be me that walks away since I’m incapable of it.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“It was silent, but a silent that was so loud I wanted to cover my ears.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“I’m cancer, Luce. And not the kind that you can kill off with radiation. The kind that kills you in the end.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“If you say you’re going to trust your man, then trust your man. Don’t revoke that privilege when he needs it most.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“I just wanted you to know I'd be chasing after you right now, naked if need required it. But because I'm respecting your need for time and space, I'll force myself to lie here in bed and pretend I'm asleep.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,” he said. “Your whole world ceases to exist and you’re nothing but a shell of the person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it in her way, me in mine, and you in yours.” He lifted his hand off John’s gravestone and rose. “Your mom hates the world, I avoid it, and you try to save it.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“I love you, Jude.”
…
“And that makes me the luckiest bastard in the world.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash

“Rain. Jude. Me. Kissing
Stick a fork in me because I was done.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“Because I know I will never love anyone like I love you. That’s what will overcome the past every time it tries to rear its ugly head.” He stepped closer. “So it’s either you and me or me and me, Luce. And I don’t really like myself, so I hope you’ll pick the you and me option.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“And I’m sorry I ruined everything we had before I could admit it to you. Before I could admit it to myself. You didn’t make me a better person, because no one can do that. You made me want to be a better person.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“Our reputations weren’t who we really were, they were who people told us we were. Some of us fell into that trap, while others fought their entire lives to break free of them. Jude was no more the bad boy with a dead end future than I was the skanky slut everyone said I was.”
― Nicole Williams, Crash

“I’ll always be here, Luce. I’m yours,” he breathed, squeezing my hands, “forever.”
― Nicole Williams, Clash