There's something uncontaminated about her, and I don't even mean sexually or whatever. I mean the way she is, at her core. Like when you wake up and the world has been blanketed by snow overnight, and not a single footstep or tire track has spoiled the untouched perfection of it.
Tammara WebberSorry, boyfriends everywhere—you’re doomed to sit through an hour and forty-seven minutes of syrupy drivel. The payoff? Between my face, Tadd’s abs and Quinton’s biceps, your girl will be ready for takeoff as soon as the credits roll. You’re welcome.
Tammara WebberI opened my mouth wide one time to see if the words I was thinking would fall out, but they wouldn’t. If words don’t want to come out, they don’t. I don’t understand when people say things and then they say, I didn’t mean to say that. Words don’t just fall out. You have to push them out. And sometimes, you can’t push them out, even if you want to.
Tammara WebberReally, he could have just punched me in the stomach, because my brain refused to comprehend the words he was saying. A physical assault, it might have understood.
Tammara WebberAlcohol removes inhibitions. It doesn't trigger criminal violence where there was none before.
Tammara WebberWhat will you do with them?" "Redo them in charcoal, probably." "And then?" "Tack them to my bedroom wall." Bedroom wall? "Who wouldn't want to wake up to this?
Tammara WebberAnd then she told me she didn’t want someone who needed her in order to be a better guy. She wanted someone who was better by himself, with or without her.
Tammara WebberThe last time someone dried my hair for me was in sixth grade, when i broke my arm." "How did you break it?" "I fell out of a tree." "You fell out of a tree?" "I think there was a boy and a dare involved." "Ah.
Tammara WebberThat’s what faith is, right?’ he says. ‘Believing in what can’t be known? Fall into my arms, Dori. I’ll catch you, every time, and I won’t let go.
Tammara WebberIf someone had asked, How does this compare to kissing Kennedy? I would have answered, "Who?"
Tammara WebberI’ve come to ask how you do it. How you feel what I know you’re feeling and then walk away like that.
Tammara WebberI shrugged. “I guess that guys who’d never do something like that have a hard time believing some other guy would,” I said, but I could see her point. Awareness and apologies were fine and good, but they could come too late.
Tammara WebberThat's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?
Tammara WebberSomething about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no amount of scrubbing will purge the scrawled oaths and sketched images, but sooner or later, you find that there’s space for someone else, between the words and in the margins.
Tammara WebberLUCAS: I've done a couple from memory but they aren't the same. Can't quite get the shape of your jaw. The line of your neck. And your lips. I need to spend more time staring at them and less time tasting them. ME: I can't say i agree with that notion. LUCAS: More of both, then.
Tammara WebberI miss you Emma." I'm not sure, but it looks like her eyes tear up. "I was fine for months without you," she says, the words hushed and forlorn. "Why does it hurt now?" I'm sighing and shoving a hand through my hair, which I know from experience leaves strands of it stabbing out in numerous directions, defiant and crazy-looking. Maybe crazy is exactly how I feel. "Because now we have hope of something more.
Tammara WebberA word of advice, though. This won't be the last time you have to deal with something in life that throws you off your game. In future courses, as well as in the real world--such as it is--professors and employers won't always be accommodating. We all have to--what's my daughter's terminology--suck it up and deal?
Tammara WebberI've been known to slum it and shop in the gag-him-and-bag-him aisles, believe it or not.
Tammara WebberIt isn't fair how I doubt him, and I wonder if he'll ever gather that my loss of faith extends further than I'd ever known it would, severing lines of trust and leveling my confidence like a city-flattening tornado.
Tammara WebberI tilt her chin up and bend my face to hers, silently praising every woman who's had a hand in making her who she is.
Tammara WebberWhenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.
Tammara WebberHow could I not love you? No one has ever affected me like you do. When you told me goodbye last month, I tried to let you go. I told myself it was the best thing for you because you wanted it. But you’re wrong, Dori. I’m good for you even if you don’t know it yet. I know because I’ve never been good for anyone before.
Tammara Webber"Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline"... "It's easy. Incredibly easy."
Tammara WebberAs for being somewhere you're not supposed to be - maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no reason.
Tammara WebberI didn’t realize I was frozen in place until a classmate shouldered into me, knocking my heavy backpack from my shoulder. “’Scuse me,” he grumbled, his tone more Get out of the way than Sorry I ran into you. As I bent to retrieve my backpack, praying Kennedy and his fangirl hadn’t seen me, a hand grasped the strap and swung the pack up from the floor. I straightened and looked into clear gray-blue eyes. “Chivalry isn’t really dead, you know.
Tammara WebberWe remain silent because we've taken on a responsibility and/or shame that was never ours to carry. Forgive yourself for things that were not your fault. Bad decisions, mistaken trust, physical weakness, or too much fear to act do not make an assault on you or someone you care about your fault. Ever.
Tammara WebberUgh! Erin. You have a one-track mind." She smiled deviously. "I prefer to think of it as target-driven.
Tammara WebberHis hands reached for me, gripping my hipbones and pulling me forward. he stared down at me, his voice low. "There are some things I will make time for, Jacqueline.
Tammara WebberWhen you finally figure out what you really want, everything else pales in comparison.
Tammara WebberI don't believe there's a reason for everything, and having faith doesn't mean I'm blind. I believe people make poor choices. I believe bad things happen to good people. I believe there's evil in the word that I will never understand, but will never stop fighting.
Tammara WebberThe truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.
Tammara WebberI'm trying to protect you. From myself. I don't do..." he swung a finger back and forth between us"...this.
Tammara WebberEveryone isn’t logical. Everything doesn’t make sense in the end. Sometimes you have to forget about explanations or excuses and leave people and places behind, because otherwise they will drag you straight down.
Tammara WebberLove is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.
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