“My loyalty is to the people who bring positivity into my life. My loyalty is to the people who want to build me up and see me happy. Those are the people I’m going to make decisions about my life for.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
“Paris. Rome. London. I have no desire to sit on a hot beach somewhere. I want to see all the romantic places in Europe and make love in every city and take pictures kissing in front of the Eiffel Tower. I want to eat croissants and hold hands on trains.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
“But even monsters can't survive without a heart beating inside their chest. There's a heart in there somewhere. Maybe no one in her life has ever let her know they're appreciative that it still beats.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
“Love. Discovering it, giving it, receiving it, falling in it, living in it, leaving for it.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
“Atlas is so angry, but this is an anger I’m not afraid of. I realize the significance of this moment. I’m alone with an angry man in my apartment, but I’m not in fear for my life, because he isn’t angry at me.”
― It Starts with Us
― It Starts with Us
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