“That he was working instead of spending time with me shouldn’t have rankled—I knew how busy he was—but it did. I felt abandoned and needy, which told me I was regressing into familiar bad patterns. The simple fact was, Gideon and I were the best and worst things that had ever happened to each other.”
― Reflected in You
― Reflected in You
“And in the end, he would become a memory, pressed in my heart like a leaf in my book.”
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
― The Summer I Turned Pretty
“What else can I bargain with? You have everything.” “Your time and attention are the two things you can leverage. I’ll do anything for them.”
― Reflected in You
― Reflected in You
“He could say with his body what he couldn’t with words, and my lust for him was how I proved my faith in us, something he needed to feel connected to me.”
― Reflected in You
― Reflected in You
“Why can’t you just let it go? Why do you have to hold on to all the shitty stuff that’s ever happened to you?” “Because I live in reality, unlike you. You’d rather live in a fantasy world than see people for who they really are.”
― It's Not Summer Without You
― It's Not Summer Without You
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