James gives me a blank stare through the perfectly unsmudged lenses of his glasses. From this close, it’s impossible to miss that he has really pretty eyes. But, like many men, he ruins the effect by speaking.
“And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.”
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― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
“We share out craziness, our neuroses, our little bit of screwed-up-ness that comes from our family. We share it. And it feels like love.”
― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
― The Rest of Us Just Live Here
“You don’t always know what it means when something means something. You just know that it means something. That it has meaning.”
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― Sorry I Missed You
“you don’t get to choose your feelings, just like you don’t get to choose your family.”
― Sorry I Missed You
― Sorry I Missed You
“I somehow knew that the particulars didn't matter. She was my heart, she was half of me, and nothing, certainly not a few measly hundred miles, was ever going to change that.”
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