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“I believe in love, but I’m a realist. You could love someone with your entire being, but it doesn’t guarantee they’ll love you in return. It’s a gamble, and I don’t like to make bets I might lose.” 
It’s his version of control, I realize, never letting himself feel deeply enough to wager getting hurt. Never letting himself feel at all.”

“Today is not forever. Happiness does not happen. Happiness must be uncovered, separated from the skin of pain. It must be claimed. Kept close.
Protected.”

“Everything hurts.” Only Grayson Hawthorne could say that and still sound utterly bulletproof. “It hurts all the time, Avery, but I know the man I was raised to be.”

But if she kept staring at him like he was the sun and the fucking moon he’d probably lose his bloody mind.

can’t believe i didn’t know this book was coming out 😭

“Why God gave a damn if she burned the barn to the ground or painted it red with yellow smiley faces she couldn’t say. But it was the best she had.”

he don’t actually give a shit

“ “A favorite is: ‘History, with all her volumes vast, hath but one page.’ That’s Byron.”
“Cool. So, why do we have to study it, be bored brainless, if it’s got one page?”
“We keep thinking if we do, we’ll change the next page. Not so much,”

“do you think we have free will?”

“I think there’s so much out of our control. Almost everything about how our lives go. But I think deciding that we’re all just on a track, that we never really had any say over our own decisions—it feels like the kind of thing someone with a lot of regrets would need to be true. Maybe I need something different to be true.”

these need to be so much longer. i need more of them. love everything she writes

PLSSSSS IM SO EXCITED TO BE READING THIS

“This is why I don’t try to call him out on his shit. He doesn’t hear me—or anyone—ever; he only listens for sound bites that he can use to twist and throw back at me. It’s a never-ending battle.”

didn’t need to be so relatable

“This is why I don’t try to call him out on his shit. He doesn’t hear me—or anyone—ever; he only listens for sound bites that he can use to twist and throw back at me. It’s a never-ending battle.”

didn’t need to be so relatable

I would walk through my worst memories to get to you every single time.

STOPPPPP

entering my were era 🙃

“Lowe may have a mate, but she’s not Gabi.”


STOPPPP 😭

“Lowe may have a mate, but she’s not Gabi.”


STOPPPP 😭

this book has me unexplainably hooked. i cannot put it down

stop it. i just realized this is ford as in willa’s brother and ima lose it

“I do love Trader Joe’s,” I said, smiling at the bag. “Nothing like a grocery store that makes you have to visit another grocery store right after.”

“So I became an island—and the island is small. I don’t need anyone. And I know that sounds sort of terrible, but it’s actually comforting to know that I have this ability to need no one. It feels like a superpower. Like I’m untouchable.”

“I still thought love was for suckers and relationships were an outlandish risk too treacherous to be worth the reward, ”

“You’re drinking with us, right?”
“Thank you, but I can’t—”
“Of course he isn’t,” Sophie said, rolling her eyes and climbing onto one of the two barstools. “He is a man, and it’s their job to disappoint us. Eternally.”

She loved to run, loved it with a pure heart, but imagined if she’d had Gull’s speed, she’d have adored it. Then she forgot him, tuned into her own body, the air, the steady slap of her shoes on the track. She let her mind empty so it could fill again with scattered thoughts.

“ “Fuck off.”
“If something’s crawled up your butt, you’d better clench. I’ve got—”

“She went inside, unlocked Eve and Roarke. There she could open the blinds, just enough to see through, and across to the roof. ”


a room named after eve and roarke. stopppp

“David used to tell me that not believing in God was a defense mechanism against human suffering. It’s easier to say nothing exists than to say something exists and He just lets us suffer.”

These small pieces of Shelly’s humanity touched off a flood of tenderness for everything Morgan had been through over the last month. He wanted to make it better and take away her pain. He wanted to turn back time and somehow change it all. Shaken by his need to protect her—more than life and limb—he looked away, trying to block it out.

understanding perfectly the punch-in-the-gut impact the Fletcher women had on the heart as he remembered the life-changing moment when his gaze met Callie’s as he peeked his head out from beneath the cottage sink.

“Doing this feels normal—making the images I can see in my head. Knowing what colors and textures I’ll use to bring them to life.” ”

He laughed, knowing that he was officially a goner—that Callie Davis was going to be someone special in his life.