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I have a million arguments I can make at the tip of my tongue – I don’t need anyone. I can take care of myself. I’m strong and don’t ask for help. My words fall short though because the way he’s looking at me makes me wish I did have someone to look after me.

Claire Contreras, Because you're mine

Time be still,

Show me a way, 

To turn back what’s done,

And change our yesterday.

- Willow Winters, You Are My Hope

Relationships were inherently complicated, never nice and neat. And in my experience, love was chaos. There was nothing organized or orderly about it. If one was looking for perfection, they were never going to find it.

- Jay Crownover, A Righteous Man

I understood the sentiment of constantly feeling like you had to put on an act to appear like you had it together, when on the inside, you really felt like a million little needles were poking at your most soft and tender spots. It was exhausting to constantly try and fool others into thinking you had it all together. It was even more tiring to trick yourself into believing it when you were bleeding from a hundred invisible wounds.

- Jay Crownover, A Righteous Man

Her heart wasn’t hard like I originally thought when she dismissed me. No, it was just battered beyond belief and bruised so deeply that it was too tender for anyone else to touch.

- Jay Crownover, A Righteous Man

Humans are the same across the board. Always unhappy. Always searching for more. Never satisfied with what they have.

- Claire Contreras