Alastair

“Not about anything. Not even when you don’t want me to worry. I know you’re strong and so resilient it’s fucking unbelievable, but you don’t have to always be strong with me. It’s okay to not be okay when you’re with me,” he said, and my breath caught. “It’s my duty as your husband to make sure you feel safe enough to be real. You don’t have to pretend that you’re okay with everything that has happened, Poppy.”
― Casteel da neer

“Love is just a trite four-letter word. People use it for every fucking thing.”
― Isabel Lucero, Dysfunctional

“A stranger could wound you if he slashed at you for a while—that wasn’t a special talent. But just a papercut from the one you loved had the power to eviscerate you. And leave you bleeding on the ground.”
― S.E. Harmon, Cross

“If not now, then when? Tomorrow isn’t promised, Laurie. If you don’t know that by now, you never will. Sometimes you take what you can, when you can, and fuck the consequences.”
― S.E. Harmon, Cross