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400 pages, ebook
Published January 28, 2017
"Everything has a positive and a negative side. Everything. You can sit back and only think about what you’re missing or what you can’t do, and then live life watching everyone and everything pass you by. Or, you can find the good side and live in it.”
“Maybe you need to find yourself before you can be found by anyone else.”
“The eyes are the windows to the soul, and I see yours.”
“I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know how to be happy with someone when I’m unhappy with myself. Or how to love someone when I hate who I am.”
“You’re beautiful… so fucking beautiful.”
“You say you unknowingly gave me your heart. But I unknowingly took it.”
“…this isn’t to question you or your abilities…it’s to see if I have what it takes.”
“What it takes for what?”
“What it takes to be the man you see when you look at me. The person you see in my eyes. The man worthy of you instead of the boy that broke you.”
“…at least I didn’t have to worry about my life turning into ashes anymore. I’d been burned enough. And I had the scars to prove it.”
"I knew I wasn’t an ugly girl. I may not have been the prom queen or a runway model, but I wasn’t ugly. I had dark-blond hair, eyes a unique shade of aqua, and a figure most girls would die for. But I had never been about physical appearance. “Real beauty lay on the inside” had always been my philosophy. And because of my beliefs, I did without makeup or trendy clothes to enhance my appearance. I kept to myself at school and only hung out with the few people I considered friends. I was simply a quiet girl. Shy."
“What was that for?” I asked softly. “Just finding the girl beneath the disguise.” Shock struck me and rendered me useless for all of ten seconds before my fingers moved, finding their way to the button on his pants. “What are you doing?” His eyebrows knitted together harshly, yet he didn’t move from my touch. Instead, he allowed me to continue with the button on his pants. “Finding the boy beneath the armor.”
"When it comes to hurdles, sometimes it’s not about how fast you run, but about how high you jump. You offered me a decent head start, gave me the push I needed. All I had to do was plant my feet on the ground and rise above it.”