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Loving you was the easiest thing I’ve ever done,” he says. The easiest thing.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers, #1))
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You have a soft belly. That’s all it is. You need to eat. You should be consuming at least two thousand calories every day. I don’t care where those calories come from. If you want to eat your weight in chicken nuggets, I’ll buy you every single bag.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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I never used to get nervous around women before Aeris, but to this day, I still get butterflies when I’m around her.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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Balade de Bon Conseyl
Flee fro the prees and dwelle with sothfastnesse;
Suffyce unto thy thing, though it be smal,
For hord hath hate, and climbing tikelnesse,
Prees hath envye, and wele blent overal.
Savour no more than thee bihove shal,
Reule wel thyself that other folk canst rede,
And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.
Tempest thee noght al croked to redresse
In trust of hir that turneth as a bal;
Gret reste stant in litel besinesse.
Be war therfore to sporne ayeyns an al,
Stryve not, as doth the crokke with the wal.
Daunte thyself, that dauntest otheres dede,
And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.
That thee is sent, receyve in buxumnesse;
The wrastling for this world axeth a fal.
Her is non hoom, her nis but wildernesse:
Forth, pilgrim, forth! Forth, beste, out of thy stal!
Know thy contree, look up, thank God of al;
Hold the heye wey and lat thy gost thee lede,
And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.
Envoy
Therefore, thou Vache, leve thyn old wrecchednesse;
Unto the world leve now to be thral.
Crye him mercy, that of his hy goodnesse
Made thee of noght, and in especial
Draw unto him, and pray in general
For thee, and eek for other, hevenlich mede;
And trouthe thee shal delivere, it is no drede.
Explicit Le bon counseill de G. Chaucer
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Geoffrey Chaucer (The Riverside Chaucer)
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Hold On"
They hung a sign up in our town
"If you live it up, you won't live it down"
So she left Monte Rio, son
Just like a bullet leaves a gun
With her charcoal eyes and Monroe hips
She went and took that California trip
Oh, the moon was gold, her hair like wind
Said, "don't look back, just come on, Jim"
Oh, you got to hold on, hold on
You gotta hold on
Take my hand, I'm standing right here, you gotta hold on
Well, he gave her a dimestore watch
And a ring made from a spoon
Everyone's looking for someone to blame
When you share my bed, you share my name
Well, go ahead and call the cops
You don't meet nice girls in coffee shops
She said, "baby, I still love you"
Sometimes there's nothin' left to do
Oh, but you got to hold on, hold on
Babe, you gotta hold on and take my hand
I'm standing right here, you gotta hold on
Well, God bless your crooked little heart
St. Louis got the best of me
I miss your broken China voice
How I wish you were still here with me
Oh, you build it up, you wreck it down
Then you burn your mansion to the ground
Oh, there's nothing left to keep you here
But when you're falling behind in this big blue world
Oh, you've got to hold on, hold on
Babe, you gotta hold on
Take my hand, I'm standing right here, you gotta hold on
Down by the Riverside motel
It's ten below and falling
By a ninety-nine cent store
She closed her eyes and started swaying
But it's so hard to dance that way
When it's cold and there's no music
Oh, your old hometown's so far away
But inside your head there's a record that's playing
A song called "Hold On", hold on
Babe, you gotta hold on
Take my hand, I'm standing right there, you gotta hold on
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Tom Waits (Tom Waits: Mule Variations Piano, Vocal and Guitar Chords)
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Willoughby: My Darling Anne, There's a longer letter in the dresser drawer I've been writing for the last week or so, that one covers us, and my memories of us, and how much I've always loved you. This one just covers tonight, and more importantly, today. Tonight I have gone out to the horses to end it. I cannot say sorry for the act itself, although I know for a short time you will be angry at me, or even hate me for it. Please don't. This is not a case of, I came in this world alone and I'm goin' out of it alone, or anything dumb like that. I did not come in this world alone, my mom was there. And I am not goin' out of it alone, 'cause you were there, drunk on the couch, making Oscar Wilde cock jokes. No, this is a case, in some senses, of bravery. Not the bravery of facing a bullet down. The next few months of pain would be far harder than that small flash. No, it's the bravery of weighing up the next few months of still being with you, still waking up with you, of playing with the kids... Against the next few months of seeing in your eyes how much my pain is killing you. How my weakened body, as it ebbs away, and you tend to it, are your final and lasting memories of me. I won't have that. Your final memories of me will be us at the riverside, and that dumb fishing game, which I think they cheated at. And me inside of you, and you on top of me... And barely a fleeting thought, of the darkness yet to come. That was the best Anne. A whooole day of not thinking about it. Dwell on this day baby, 'cause it was the best day of my life. Kiss the girls for me, and know that I've always loved you... And maybe I'll see ya again if there's another place, and if there ain't... Well, it's been heaven knowing you. Your Boy, Bill
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Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
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And when in doubt, drink it out, right? Okay, maybe not. I don’t promote alcoholism.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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I remember the first time I met him. It was my first day of third grade, and during snack time, he came up to me and stole one of my peanut butter crackers. With no warning or anything. Then just ate it in front of me with this look like, Yeah, bitch, and I’d do it again.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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Loving you fucking hurts. It hurts in the best way. Every time I look at you, it feels like my heart’s going to burst out of my chest. And fuck, I’d die without a single complaint if it meant that the last thing I ever saw was you.
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Celeste Briars (The Cruelest Kind of Hate (Riverside Reapers, #3))
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Star left defenseman for the NHL’s Riverside Reapers. One of my brother’s best friends. The guy I’m secretly in love with—the guy who looks at me like I’m his kid sister.
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Celeste Briars (The Worst Kind of Promise (Riverside Reapers #2))
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Tissues are a code red. At least, they are in the Hollings household. Faye went through a four-pack of boxes when her spineless ex-boyfriend broke up with her over text. I may or may not have gone over to his house that night and broken his nose.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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Hayes Hollings is ruination, and he wears sin like the snug fit of a leather jacket around his shoulders.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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I’ve always loved when people aren’t afraid to talk about their passions. And something about the thought of always having a little piece of her when she’s away makes my heart swoon. I don’t swoon, okay? No part of me has ever swooned. I brood. That’s it.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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When my steady lips stretch over her trembling ones, love rattles inside my body like bottled lightning—frenetic and blinding, but in the best way possible. My skin sings under her buttery touch, and it’s in that moment that I realize I’d trade everything in the world to stay in her arms a little bit longer.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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HAYES: No, no, and no. I don’t like celebrating my birthday. CASEN: It’s 5-1, buddy. You’ve been outvoted. HAYES: Yeah, but since I’m the birthday boy, my vote counts for more. So it’s actually like 5-15. KIT: How? HAYES: For every one of your votes, my vote counts for three times that. KIT: In what fucked-up universe? HAYES: This one, bitch.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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You know when your life is going too well, and you just feel like something bad is bound to happen? That bad has been waiting on the horizon for me this whole time in the form of Hayes Hollings. Little did I know that the person who makes my sun rise every morning would also be the same person responsible for darkening my skies.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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Don’t be afraid of the love you still feel. Real love—true love—is worth fighting for, no matter how scary it is,
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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I’ve had an epiphany for the first time in my twenty-four years of life. I’ve always been surrounded by girls, by options, and I’ve never had to go looking very far for them. It’s like I’ve been following a broken compass this whole time, pointing me east, west, and south, but never north. Never true north. Never home. Aeris is home.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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I can’t imagine any other woman taking my last name. Or she can keep hers, or hyphenate, or fuck it, I’ll take her last name. Hayes Relera has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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He hugs me to his side, and he presses his lips to the top of my head. His voice is soft, nearly a whisper, but I still hear what he says. “When I propose to you, I hope you’ll say yes.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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Stacks, when I first met you, I never thought I’d end up on one knee for you. I never thought I’d settle down with anyone, actually. Every moment we’ve spent together has been the best kind of ride. I never believed that I was going to find love, much less find the person I’d want to spend the rest of my life with. And it just so happened that I got lucky enough to find both in you,” he says, his voice laced with a tenderness warm enough to unfreeze an icy lake. Tears rage behind my eyes, but I’m not sure if it’s because of his speech or an aftereffect of nearly choking to death.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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Hayes is the life jacket safely secured around my shoulders. He’s helped me reach the surface again, and he’s helped me stay afloat so I never have to carry any pain by myself ever again.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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If you don’t move your hands, I’ll pin them to the fucking ground. You’re not hiding from me. You’re not keeping any part of your body from me. Right now, you’re mine. You’re going to let me worship every inch of you, and you’re going to like it. Do you understand?
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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You don’t need to say all of this stuff,” she mumbles. “I know. I want to. And since you’re my favorite subject, I’m never going to shut up.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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He gets on his knees. His knees. “These flowers don’t even begin to scratch the surface to show how sorry I am. I want to earn your trust back if you’ll let me. If you want me to leave you alone, I’ll leave you alone. If you want me to prove my love for you, I’ll prove my love for you. I already bought you a nectarine orchard in South Africa, but I’ll buy you a vacation home out there, too. I’ll build you your own personal library, so you never run out of books. I’ll—” Emotion garbles my words. “I forgive you.” And just like that, the war is over.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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I’ve never done anything in my twenty-four years of life that made me deserving of a blessing. But you, Aeris Relera, were a blessing in disguise. You make me a better person. You make my days worth living again. Living, okay? Before you, I was merely surviving. You saved me.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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Loving you was the easiest thing I’ve ever done,” he says.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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After the lesson, his mouth dry, he went up to the Master and asked, “What did you mean by that, the best?”
Applethorpe held out his arm, and one of his assistants removed his glove for him. He said to Michael, “The true swordsmen, of course. Men who must earn their living fighting to the death—and who must win every time. There aren’t very many of them, of course; most last only a season or two before they die, or retreat into a cozy guard post on the Hill, or take to easier jobs.”
“Where do they come from?”
The Master shrugged both shoulders. “You mean, where did they study? Who knows? I had a teacher; crazy old man, drunk half the time, brilliant when he could see straight. If you need to learn, you do it.” He waved his hand as though swatting away gnats. “It’s not the sort of thing you come here to do. It takes more than two hours a week.” The point struck home.
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Ellen Kushner (Swordspoint (Riverside, #1))
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Beautiful is a concept I never saw myself achieving—a standard that wasn’t meant for bigger girls like me. It just didn’t exist, and I structured my understanding of beauty around what the conventional standard was in society. Flawless skin, no cellulite, perfectly proportioned boobs, a perky butt, a thigh gap, and a flat stomach. That was the beautiful I’d grown to know. And it was never going to be me.
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You’re adorable when you blush, you know that?” A flirtatious lilt skirts along his tone.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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I stop in my tracks. I don’t know what it is about this girl, but she gets all my wires crossed.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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Look at you, soaking the blanket like such a greedy girl. How long have you been like this?
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))
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Don’t move, or the guys are going to see the raging hard-on I have right now, and I’ll never hear the end of it.
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Celeste Briars (The Best Kind of Forever (Riverside Reapers #1))