Jessica Sorensen, The Coincidence of Callie & Kayden
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"No one has ever needed me before because I’ve never let anyone that far in."
"I just let the pain take over, allowing it to numb the pain of being left behind."
"I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad."
"There are no accusations with writing, no judgment, no shame, only freedom."
"I walk out the door with a heavy feeling in my heart as another secret falls on top of it."
"You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside."
"So I let my shame own me, kill me, wilt me away into a thousand dead flakes, knowing if I kept it all in, she would never have to learn the dirtiness that was forever inside me--the bad, the ugly, the twisted. She could go on living her life happy, just like she deserved."
"One of the stall doors swings open and a fortyish-year-old woman walks out tucking her shirt into her jeans. Her heavy lined eyes land on Seth. "This is the women's restroom." She points a finger to the door. "Can't you read?""Can't you see that everyone in this club is about twenty years younger than you?" Seth retorts, turning to the mirror. With his pinkie, he messes with bangs. "Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to have some fun."
"I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her."