Nicole Williams

My dad had once told me, crimson-red deep in __he talk,_ that with sons, all he had to worry about was one penis, but with a daughter, he had to worry about everyone else__.

Everyone was going crazy, like they__ just witnessed the birth of Jesus and the invention of electricity at the same time. Jude was a rock star, their savior, and they were paying him homage.

See? That__ it,_ he said, waving his hand. __hat__ part of what makes us so great, Luce. I__ crazy. You__e crazy. Together, we make our own brand of crazy.

Still trying to save the world?_ __lways,_ I said, __nd in case you haven__ noticed, it__ working. The world is still here.

I love you too much to lose you over something so little. __oommates With Benefits.

Wealth can be created. Wit and intelligence can't.

Your whole world ceases to exist and you're nothing but a shell of a person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it her way, me in mine, and you in yours," he said, lifting his hand off of John's gravestone and rising. "Your mom hates the world, I avoid it, and you try to save it.

Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey

Don't let the fear of losing them keep you from loving them.

You__e worth ever bead of sweat and every groan of frustration. You__e worth the work, you__e worth the wait, you__e worth everything I have to give you._ I moved closer, so our foreheads were pressed together, our eyes aligned. __o make me work for it. Make me work hard for it. I will. You won__ hear one complaint from me working myself to the bone for you. Not one.

In the depths of hell roasting on a spit if it meant getting to be close to you.

But you make the rest hard too. Make me work for you. Make me earn your love. It's worth whatever price. Whatever cost. Don't let me come to expect easy with you. Make me want to work hard for you.

Sometimes I have to pretend I feel brave before I actually do. Sometimes I never make it past the pretending part. But those days are getting fewer and further between.

I'll be the judge of that, I whispered, pressing my lips into his and, just like that, we were the only people on the dance floor. The only people in the universe. Jude was the sickness I didn't want to be cured of. He was the intoxicant I never wanted to be clear of.

The time between two seconds was immeasurable, and though I knew our moment would come to an end, it would be a limitless one. We were two halves of one being who had at last found each other and come together in this union.

Don't live life hiding behind your past. Live for the moment. When you find someone you want to spend forever with, you don't let them go, whether forever turns out to be a day, a year or fifty years

It's always amazing how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

When a child dies, a parent loses a part of themselves,_ he said. __our whole world ceases to exist and you__e nothing but a shell of the person you once were. Your mom has dealt with it in her way, me in mine, and you in yours._ He lifted his hand off John__ gravestone and rose. __our mom hates the world, I avoid it, and you try to save it.