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You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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Maybe sometimes you have to say goodbye, even when it hurts. Maybe that’s the only way to appreciate the hellos.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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Parents’ words become their children’s inner voices.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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Maybe I shouldn’t believe him. After all, it’s easy for someone’s words to be just that. Words.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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Love is a single soul inhabiting two bodies. —Aristotle
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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Heartbreak is easier to hide in the dark.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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We are the forgotten. Even though we’re the ones who are left to struggle.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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We could go our entire lives without speaking, and still, I’d know you in the next one.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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My world was black for so long, you know?” “And she’s the light?” Anna asks softly. “She’s every star in the sky.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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she’s grown into her curves. Blood rushes straight to my cock, making it throb painfully. I groan, trying to ignore it. I will not jerk myself off to
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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That’s when I learned you can never trust anybody, but you can always trust them to be who they are.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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If you wanna spend your time chasin’ after Daddy and the devil on his shoulder, be my guest. He’ll leave you in the dust, and all that’ll be left is you chasin’ your own tail.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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sitting in a room full of people whose scars remind me I’m still bleeding.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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fill the air with empty thoughts.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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It's impossible to explain this feeling. No words to express the pain of losing the one person who loved you most in the world. No way to describe the devastation in knowing no one will ever love you that way again.
If you've never lost a parent, you won't understand. But Jax does. Because Jax has. I stay strong in the face of everyone else, but for him, I can break. And I do. Over and over, I break.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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That was a defining fucking moment of my life. The moment I realized she wasn't coming back. That's when I learned you can never trust anybody, but you can always trust them to be who they are.
And my mom was a junkie.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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Parent's words become their children's inner voice.
It's a hell of a thing, learning to ignore it.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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People are in charge of their own happiness. It's unfair to put that responsibility on others.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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Never wanted a one-way ticket on the Jackson express?" He wiggles his brows.
Becca gags. "Darlin', I'd break the train down.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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It's easy to think about the addicts. Easy to sympathize with their disease, mourn their deaths. It's simple to put out a tweet about what a tragedy it is, and how we need to do something about the drug crisis. But nobody remembers to think of the people left behind. We're expected to dust off our knees from where we fell, and move on with our lives like we aren't ripped to shreds. Like it isn't taking fucking everything to simply breath through the pain.
We are the forgotten. Even though we're the ones who are left to struggle.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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Your life was a blessing, Your memory a treasure. You are loved beyond words, Missed without measure.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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can’t offer her anything, can’t give her the world, but I can’t let her go, either, so I’ll lay my bruised soul at her feet and hope she tends to the wounds.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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My heart fucking beats for you, Goldi. So please, let’s not pretend we don’t know each other. The sole reason for my existence is to know you. In this life, in the next…it doesn’t matter.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))
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God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Emily McIntire (Beneath the Stars (Sugarlake, #1))