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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.”

“I will love you for the rest of my life,” she whispers against my lips.
It’s a promise, coming from the most loyal woman I know. 
“Forever, Blue.”

“Stevie climbs into the bed behind me, wrapping her arms around my shoulders. 
“This is nice,” I sigh. “Your brother always calls little spoon.” ”

“How else would you get to live a thousand lives in the span of only one? The beauty of fiction is that it makes you feel things on a visceral level. You can cry with those characters, laugh with them. It teaches you to look at another’s perspective, to have empathy. In nonfiction, you simply learn about something instead of feeling it.”

“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.” 

I slip Indy’s lavender one over her head. The color looks nice against her blonde hair and brown eyes, but then again, she looks nice in just about anything. 

“Zanders folds over his steering wheel in laughter. “Ryan, my guy, you’re so completely fucked, and you can’t even see it.” ”