Laura

“I like being taken care of,” she whispers, her voice barely audible. “No one ever thinks I need it, but I do. I just don’t know how to ask.”
― Samantha Brinn, Because of You

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
― Leland Val Van De Wall

“Je ne regrette rien,” I say, lifting my glass of water and sipping it. “That’s the spirit,” Evelyn says. “Although that song is more about not regretting because you don’t live in the past. What I mean is that I’d still make a lot of the same decisions today. To be clear, there are things I regret. It’s just . . . it’s not really the sordid things. I don’t regret many of the lies I told or the people I hurt. I’m OK with the fact that sometimes doing the right thing gets ugly. And also, I have compassion for myself. I trust myself. Take, for instance, when I snapped at you earlier, back at the apartment, when you said what you did about my confessing sins. It wasn’t a nice thing to do, and I’m not sure you deserved it. But I don’t regret it. Because I know I had my reasons, and I did the best I could with every thought and feeling that led up to it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“You’re new to long-term relationships that you actually want to be in, but let me tell you something I know for sure: You don’t love someone only when it’s convenient or easy. You love them when it’s fucking awful and the world is falling apart around you.”
― Elsie Silver, Wild Eyes