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“...we’d be okay. Not perfect, not entirely healthy, not even rational where our love for one another was concerned. Just okay. Merely sufficient, at best. But there’d be only acceptance—never shame—in being two divine failures as we emerged from slumber, perfectly flawed, and wide awake.”
― Wide Awake
― Wide Awake
“Change often starts with the smallest of whispers. Like-minded people building it up to a roar.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“My brain is gooey like warm cookies.”
― Wide Awake
― Wide Awake
“And the raw feeling that it ignited within me made me fucking whimper into her mouth as I tugged her hair. It was something so fucking new and alien and more intense than anything I had ever felt before. I didn’t know what name to give it. I couldn’t discern anything from the raw need to be closer to her. I had no way of knowing how close it was to the love I had been desperately seeking, but I knew it was on a completely new level for me. A level above simple caring and friendship and adoration, and even lust. And I fucking basked in it.”
― Wide Awake
― Wide Awake
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