We all have a limit. What we’re willing to put up with before we break. When I married your father, I knew exactly what my limit was. But slowly . . . with every incident . . . my limit was pushed a little more. And a little more. The first time your father hit me, he was immediately sorry. He swore it would never happen again. The second time he hit me, he was even more sorry. The third time it happened, it was more than a hit. It was a beating. And every single time, I took him back. But the fourth time, it was only a slap. And when that happened, I felt relieved. I remember thinking, ‘At least he didn’t beat me this time. This wasn’t so bad.’ 


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It’s not a confession if no one reads it. It’s just an unshared secret.
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Every day of my life it feels as if I'm
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Tonight, everyone’s focus is on my art, but my focus is on her. She’s the most interesting piece...
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She deserves better. So much better.
She deserves me.
If only she knew that.
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He kisses me like I’m his canvas.
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It's amazing how you don't realize just how alone and scared you were until you have someone by your...
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He kisses me like he's giving me every kiss he wishes he could have given me the past, and every kis...
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That could be fate, you know.
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Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.
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Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows. Something I can keep for myself.
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Sometimes I miss them so much, it hurts me right here. It feels like someone is squeezing my heart w...
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Some secrets should never turn into confessions. I know that better than anyone.
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Please don’t allow anyone to make you feel less than what you are.
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I think love is a hard word to define,” I say to her. “You can love a lot of things about a pers...
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It’s amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.
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I'm afraid if I listen to my heart once, I'll never figure out how to ignore it again.
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I love you so much.” His voice is breathless and full of fear. “I’ll love you forever. Even wh...
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I'm scared I'll never feel this again with anyone else," I whisper.
He squeezes my hands. "I'm ...
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Maybe I’m not the hero to her I've always tried so hard to be, because right now, I feel as if she...
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I want him to lock his arms around me and throw away the key, because this is where he belongs and I...
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Sometimes we don’t get second chances, Owen. Sometimes things just end.”

He winces. �...
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Let's not let this be your life tonight," he says. "Let's get back in the car and pretend we're driv...
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Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things a...
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I'm bored," he says.
"So go home."
"I don't want to. What do you do when you're bored? You...
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I love you, Lake," he smiles as he presses his forehead against mine. "You deserve to come first.
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Most of me believed she wouldn't show up today, but a small part of me still held out hope. I can't ...
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You have to let it go. You can hold on to the hate and the love and even the bitterness, but you hav...
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I'll love you forever, even when I can't.
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I think about all the people I wish could die instead of you.
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The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The ...
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Auburn Mason Reed,” I say out loud.

What are the chances?

I smile and run my...
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You can love a lot of things about a person but still not love the whole person.
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It’s midnight!” he says frantically, slapping at the door. “Call her. Call your roommate!” COLLEEN HOOVER Daniel,” she whispers.

I groan and drop my forehead to hers, touching her cheek with my...
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Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling ...
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I don't know how he calmed me down without even talking, but he did. Some people just have a calming...
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When I touch you, I’m touching you because I want to make you happy. When I kiss you, I’m kissin...
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Who cares about tomorrow?
What more is tomorrow,
than another day?
(-The Avett Brothe...
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There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.
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How could she love him after what he did to her? How could she contemplate taking him back?”
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Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love t...
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Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. They aren’t achieved when you hide out in a p...
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Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to m...
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His memory is the last place i want to be. I would give anything to always be in his present.
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I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop.
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There can't be a maybe someday between us. There will never be a maybe someday.
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People don't get to choose who they fall in love with. The only get to choose who they stay in love ...
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I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.
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Sometimes moving on is the only way to move on.
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Her lips are in close proximity to mine, so of course I have to kiss them.
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We've got an entire lifetime ahead of us to do things like get married. But sometimes things in peop...
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It’s worth all the aches,
All the tears,
the mistakes…
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Now that I have you back, I’m never letting you go. That’s a promise. I’m not letting you go a...
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There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.
A fi...
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I love you because of you. Because of every single thing about you.
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Sorry,” Kiersten says to Lake and I. “Mom says the FCC is responsible for inventing cusswords ju...
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