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No more game playing. It's time we call this fight what it is: a war.
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Pain is what makes you grow, it's what makes you mature, it's what helps lead you to the path you are meant to be on. If everything is good all the time, there would never be change.
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Katie McGarry |
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There are moments when your heart breaks and melts at the same time. When there's so much love flooding your soul that you're drowning in the tide. This is that moment with Noah.
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Katie McGarry |
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The way he stares at me--it's as if he doesn't even see the outside anymore. His eyes pierce me as if he can see my soul and the thought terrifies me.
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Katie McGarry |
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Noah's fingers lightly touched the long thick ridge below my left shoulder blade. His voice pitched low. "I'm sorry, baby." "No one else knows, Noah. Not even Lila." He kissed my back as he slid his hand over the scars on my arm. "You 're beautiful", he whispered against my skin. Noah lifted my arm and kept eye contact as his mouth trailed kisses along the scars. Pure hunger darkened those chocolate-brown eyes. "Kiss me."
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I've learned a lot playing college ball," Mark says."What you do in high school doesn't mean shit. You can be the best ballplayer in your high school. The best in the country or state, but when you get to college, you're going to meet fifty other guys who can brag the same thing. You'll meet guys better than you, stronger than you, faster than you, and then you're up against better teams. The world changes when you leave Groveton."
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And no, I don't mind if you want to write me again. Even if you do it in one of those kitten-hanging-from-a-tree cards. ~Lincoln
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Katie McGarry |
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They weren't coming back and I could never re-create what we had, but I could move forward.
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Katie McGarry |
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A ghost of that siren smile graced her lips as she tilted her head closer to mine, creating the undeniable pull of the sailor lost to the sea to the beautiful goddess calling him home.
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Katie McGarry |
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time to tell the prince he rescued the wrong girl.
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Her face reddened. "Sorry, i, um, assumed that, you know, that since you said i was yours, that we would kind of, i guess..." Damn, she was cute when she stammered."
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Katie McGarry |
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How can you fully hate someone who does all the stupid things because that's the way he loves?
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Katie McGarry |
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Don't tell her. Buy what you need and i'll cover the cost." "You sure?" "Yeah." Echo wanted that car running and i wanted to see that siren smile."
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Katie McGarry |
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I could teach you to drive if you 're ready to admit you don't know how.
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Katie McGarry |
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Please, baby." "It's okay. I've got you."
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Katie McGarry |
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We don't need to have sex. There are other things i can do to help you sleep.
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Katie McGarry |
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I came to this house for safety. They came because the foster care system ran out of homes. We stayed because we were stray pieces of other puzzles, tired of never fitting.
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family
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Katie McGarry |
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It must be a male thing to talk about playing with balls.
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Katie McGarry |
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I promise, Echo, i'll take care of you now and forever.
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Katie McGarry |
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I am not your property, I am not a dog ... I am your equal, and I deserve the love and respect that comes with that because that's what a real man does when he loves a woman.
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Katie McGarry |
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Having nothing left to fidget with, i rested against the counter and tried not to stare at Noah. But i wanted to. He had his jacket off and his black t-shirt fit him perfectly. Today, during lunch, Grace had tunred her nose up when she spotted the bottom of his tattoo on his right bicep. I'd silently agreed with Lila's comment-yum. My inides had melted when Noah produced his wicked grinand gazed at me like i was naked. Luke used to give me..
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I think sometimes things we don't like happen so we can appreciate the good. Like, can I really enjoy a sunrise if I didn't experience the darkness of night? Without her past, Echo would never have met Noah, and without her losing Aires, I would never have met you.
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Katie McGarry |
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I like how you smile and how you laugh. I like how you love and defend your family and I like how you're trying to love mine. I love how you trust. But mostly, Emily, I love you.
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oz
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Noah trailed a line of blazing kisses along the nape of neck, confusing my brain.
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Katie McGarry |
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Always check the peephole before answering the door. You never know who's on the other side. Translation: serial killers knock before attacking.
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Katie McGarry |
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I don't give a fuck about your scars.
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I laugh and it's the same bitter laugh I remember him giving when we met so many weeks ago. Isaiah says it so simply that my heart soars and sinks at the same time. I whisper. Isaiah shakes his head and stares out the window. I ask. Because I don't know how the two of us can continue forward. Isaiah refuses to let me in. It's sort of cruel. He's brought me close with his stories of his childhood and with his words of love, but he can't..
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control
happen
help
hurt
isaiah
let-in
love
rachel-young
refuse
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He tipped my chin, forcing me to look at him. "We have forever to work up to that, Echo. Let's enjoy every step of the way." My mind drifted this way and that. Mostly between focusing on his heart, his touch and the sweetest word i had ever heard: forever."
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I had no idea i'd traveled into my own universe until Echo's cold fingers squeezed mine. "Want to do normal?" And my heart clenched in pain and joy at the same time. I missed my parents beyond words and this beautiful nymph understood."
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Katie McGarry |
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I forced my head straight and narrowed my eyes. "I love you."
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Katie McGarry |
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For a few seconds, I want to know what it's like not to settle or dream, but to live. To be the girl who's cared for, to be the girl who's cherished, to be the girl who's kissed.
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Katie McGarry |
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How are things going with your brothers?" "The judge set a date to hear me out after graduation. Mrs.Collins has been prepping me." "That is awesome!" "Yeah." "What's wrong?" "Carrie and Joe hired a lawyer and I lost visitation." Echo placed her delicate hand over mine."Oh, Noah. I am so sorry." I'd spent countless hours on the couch in the basement, staring at the ceiling wondering what she was doing. Her laughter, her smile, the feel o..
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Katie McGarry |
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Echo turned and her smoldering emerald eyes drifted to my bare chest. She licked her lips. "You 're still wet." She wanted me-just not as badly as every throbbing muscle in my body wanted her."
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Katie McGarry |
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I'm just a girl on a midway, he's just a boy on a midway, and not everything has to end like a daydream.
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Katie McGarry |
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Crecer significa tomar decisiones dificiles y hacer lo correcto no necesariamente significa hacer lo que te hace sentir bien.
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Katie McGarry |
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His lips curved into a sexy smile and i became lost in him. "I love you, Echo Emerson." I whispered the words as he brought his lips to mine. "Forever."
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Katie McGarry |
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I'm destined to die a virgin." Maybe i should have gone off with him. Not to get high, but to...well...not die a virgin."
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Katie McGarry |
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Don't do that Echo." "Don't do what?" He clutched my hand and gently rubbed his fingers over it. "Be scared of me." Noah sat up a little and i sank low enough to rest my head on his shoulder. "I'm not scared of you." What you do to my body, maybe, but not you."
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Katie McGarry |
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You asked me earlier what it was like to come home," I say. Haley nods. I lace our fingers together and raise them into the air. "I couldn't answer you because I didn't know, but now I do. This-" I rock out hands "-I finally found home." --
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Katie McGarry |
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Noah's become a man and has built us a home. Not a structure. Not a physical place to lay our heads, but a home in the sense that it completely matters...we belong to each other.
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Katie McGarry |
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The feeling that no matter what happened or what I did, there was someplace safe to fall.
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Katie McGarry |
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You think it's smart for a guy like me to kiss the governor's daughter? You need to know who I was before, so you'll stay away from me, and before, I wasn't a nice guy." Elle studies me too seriously and long enough it causes me to shift my footing. "You want to kiss me?"
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Katie McGarry |
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As much as I want nothing more than to be around you, as much as I want to touch you and kiss you and hear your laughter and your voice, I can't. You and me - it can't happen. Not in public. Not in private. I lost one year of my life, and I can't lose any more.
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Katie McGarry |
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I didn't want her to go, ever. I wanted Echo in my bed every night with my arms and legs wrapped around her.
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