Status Updates From Just One Kiss: Bea & CJ (Cr...

“But you, young lady, you have a lot of chapters still left to write, and there’s nothing wrong with introducing a new hero in your story.”

“I lost my Marie after sixty-plus years of marriage. If something would’ve happened to her in my twenties or thirties, heck maybe even fifties it would’ve been a whole other story. See now, when I lost her, my book was closer to the end than it was to the beginning. I don’t have the patience or the desire to write another chapter with anyone else“.

I might not have been in love before I met you, but I’ve definitely been in lust. Lust is about the person who’s experiencing it. It’s consuming, and selfish, and impatient.
Love is about the other person. It’s consuming too, but love isn’t selfish, it’s selfless. It’s not impatient, it’s patient. It’s about protection, not possession. It’s about giving, not taking. It’s about sacrifice, not indulgence.”