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324 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 8, 2016
“I’d rather have one day with you than an eternity with anyone else.”
“Grant had been my safe place in a world of darkness. As outlandish as it was, he still felt like one of those safe places.”
“I’m still a piece of shit. Just a piece of shit who loves the shit out of you.”
“How do you go and fall in love with someone new when you left your heart with someone else?”
I’d assumed he’d buried what had happened between us in some unmarked grave and forgotten about it and me years ago. I’d come prepared to remind him of who I was and then bridge the reason why I was back, but I had not come prepared to take on a scorned lover. I’d come equipped to explain myself, not to defend myself, but from the look on his face just now, I’d have to do both.
“I fell for you forever ago and there’s nothing you’ve done since that moment that has changed that. There’s nothing you could do to change that. When a person falls, they don’t just get up, dust themselves off, and keep going. If they fell right, if they fell good and hard the first time, there’s no getting up from that fall because they landed right where they were supposed to be.”
“You changed me forever the moment you said those three words to me, and it’s because of those words I’m the man I am today, standing in front of you. I’m who I am because you loved me.”
His body was growing tenser with each word, his eyes spilling over with emotion. I didn’t think he blinked once.
“I’ve been close to you for the past fourteen years of my life, even when I never saw your face for half of those years. I’ve been in love with you those same fourteen years, and I will die still being in love with you, Ryan Hale … So don’t treat me like my love’s some kind of light switch I can switch on or off depending on my mood. Because my love’s like the goddamned sun. It never goes out.”
“I’d rather have one day with you than an eternity with anyone else.”
“You are half my soul … The best part of it.”
“I've been in love with you those same fourteen years, and I will die still being in love with you, Ryan Hale.
"Because my love's like goddamned sun. It never goes out."
“I love you so damn much, Ryan. I'd die for you.
A million way, a million times. I'd die for you.“
„And I'd live for you. A million way, a million times, I'd live for you.“
“I'd rather have one day with you than an eternity with anyone else.
“I’d rather have one day with you than an eternity with anyone else.”What are you waiting for?
“You are half my soul … The best part of it.”
“We didn’t get to choose when we were born into this world or when we’d leave it, but we did get to choose how we��d live the time in between…”
“…live as though you were dying, dream as if you’ll have forever.”
You changed me forever the moment you said those three words to me, and it’s because of those words I’m the man I am today, standing in front of you. I’m who I am because you loved me.Grant and Ryan grew up in the bad part of town and were childhood sweethearts, they were it for each other until one day Ryan up and left without explanation. Seven years later she’s back in town and she’s definitely brought some baggage that needs unpacking. A lot of what was going on with Ryan was predictable imo but I was surprised by the big problem she reveals, I had suspected something else (legit spoiler —> ). I’ve got a pretty basic understanding of Ryan’s problem, and part of that understanding is its endgame, which was bittersweet for many reasons.
The scars of our past were carved all over our bodies. But I knew the future we'd create together would heal them all, even the ones that ran deep.Ok, I need to actually talk about it (don’t read if you want to read the book
Grant and I were meant to be together … Trying to deny that was like trying to deny a person’s thirst for water. It was in my very makeup - he was in my very makeup. I’d love Grant until my last breath, and I knew he’d love me until his last.Anyway, Grant was a great guy, he worked hard to get where he was in life but he never forgot where he came from and he tried to help kids that were like him. He was resistant to Ryan when she first returned, she’d burned him in a major way, but he’s not totally unreceptive to her, she's still that girl he fell in love with when they were kids. I would have liked to spend some time with Grant and Ryan when they first fell in love because I didn't really get a good feel for their connection, it was already established so it wasn't as obvious for me.