I mean, aren’t we all tormented by past relationships?

We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect.

I’m glad we can be friends.”There’s that word again. It’s like a safe word.

I almost feel bad for declining, but I feel more terrible that I can’t stop looking at how his chest rises and falls with each of his frustrated breaths.

I didn’t know who I was or who I wanted to be until you stumbled into my life. I refuse to let you go.

Our scars make us who we are. Some scars are just deeper than others.

He tangles his hand in my hair, and the other cups my jaw. Although I have this all planned, his lips feel shockingly sweet, swollen and soft, and more like home every time

I chew my food, leaning back into the couch. “I loved him. That’s what dumb girls do.”“You aren’t dumb.”I try to hold back my smile. “I’m hanging out with you, aren’t I?

The truth is, I always want to kiss you.

Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don’t want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.

Avoiding things that you deem unattainable on first sight will limit you.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

the most powerful bodies in the world, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, are also the least democratic and inclusive.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

And where there's pure love, there is no room for anger of any kind.

I'm a human being. I'm not perfect.

I love to travel, it doesn't matter where I am in the world, usually there's a good time to be had.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.