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“I don’t want you to change, Bridgette. I’m not in love with who you could be, or who you used to be, or who the world says you should be. I’m in love with you. Right now. Just like this.”

“The only difference between falling in love and being in love is that your heart already knows how you feel, but your mind is too stubborn to admit it.”

“It’s hard to fall in love with @$$holes, Warren.”

“Maybe you just haven’t met the right @$$hole yet.”

I can’t inhale, no matter how hard I try, because the need to kiss her has taken over my passageways. I need her air. I force my mouth against hers and I kiss her with a possessiveness I didn’t even know was in me.

“Are you opposed to porn?”

“Not opposed to the principle of porn, but slightly opposed to being featured in one.”

you’re the one in danger of becoming clingy. You’ll want so much more of me, I won’t be able to tell the difference between you and Saran Wrap.

It has to be exhausting to respond to all aspects of life with so much anger.

until her anger seems to have subsided, as much as anger can subside in Bridgette’s world.

Bridgette is 22.

“No, I don’t want her,” I sign. “But I feel like I need her. So bad. She’s so…” I pause my hands for a few seconds before continuing. “She’s the best worst thing that’s ever happened to me.”