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And maybe I still don't have it all figured out, but I'm working on it, and I'll keep working on it. I'll keep going to therapy. I'll go with you if you want to go together. I'll talk to you about everything. I'll listen about everything. Talk my fucking ears off, baby; I'll beg. you to every day if I need to. I'm begging you to fight with me, do anything with me. Just be with me."

😩 this scene. So real

"Because when it comes down to it, on a physical level, feeling happy doesn't take priority over surviv-ing," I say. "We're programmed to remember the bad so that we know what to stay away from and how to keep going. That's why the shit that hurts stands out in our minds. That's why holding on to the happy takes work."

So true

"We should... we should try to do this more." It's such a casual thing to say when it's meant to be anything but. Make plans with me forever, I mean. Hitch your life to mine again and we'l go places.
We'll share every plan, every heavy thing together, and all the good stuff too.

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"New beginnings are best when you get to pick and choose what you carry over from the old."

"I know, but... I could have tried. That was the point, right? Finding a compromise. Even if I couldn't say them publicly, I could have written them to you. I could've tried, and I don't know why I wasn't willing to back then. Seems so fucking stupid now." "You were my best friend and I still kept shit too close to the chest sometimes. “So did I," I confess.

I love how raw this feels. Might’ve said this before

She's kissing me. Her lips are on mine after five long years. Five hundred years. She's kissing me.
I'm home.

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"I thought I missed your baking.... That was nothing. I was starving to be near you again." With that, he slips past me and starts off toward the games, smirking at my stunned expression over his shoulder. “Game face, Byrd. You let a compliment throw you off your game, and I might get excessive with them."

Hehe

"You were great at showing. me you appreciated... parts of me... physically." Jesus. I feel a bead of sweat drip down the back of my neck. " Sometimes it just would've been nice to be told things more often. I'd like to have known what you saw and what was in your head, more often."

I love how real this feels

Maybe that's how I have to start thinking of this trip with Ellis, too. We earned the scars and those tender spots in our sto-ries. They're not things we have to hide or feel embarrassed or awkward about. We deserve to talk about them, no matter how we do that or how we get there. Now we ve got the perspective of time on our side, and I bet we can figure it out together.

This

“I managed to go almost five years without your baking. This statement is shaded in innuendo. "Don't underestimate my self-control, Wren"