“There was only so much cranky little bitch you can handle in a day, even if it was called for.” — Mariana Zapata Copy Share Image
“I fell in love with the voice in the dark. No joke, no exaggeration. It was a pure, raw love.” — Mariana Zapata Love Copy Share Image
“Beauty fades, a good personality and chemistry doesn’t. “I” — Mariana Zapata Beauty Copy Share Image
“Loneliness even when you’re surrounded by others is something I understand well. I’m” — Mariana Zapata Loneliness Copy Share Image
“Talk was talk. Anyone could say they were Batman, but not everyone could be Batman.” — Mariana Zapata Batman Copy Share Image
“I lost the name my mom had so carefully chosen and became a medical term.” — Mariana Zapata Mom Copy Share Image
“Baby, just ‘cuz you’re cute doesn’t mean I wasn’t bein’ serious about spankin’ your tight little ass for doin’ dumb shit, Ritz.… — Mariana Zapata Cute Copy Share Image
“His gaze was unflinching and solid. If someone could have light sabers in their eyes, it would be him.” — Mariana Zapata Kulti Copy Share Image
“Babe, I've handpicked everythin' and everyone in here. I know what I want and I get what I want," he breathed. "And… — Mariana Zapata Babe Copy Share Image
“I mentally stepped into my Big Girl Socks—the equivalent I’d been given as a kid instead of Big Girl Panties because my… — Mariana Zapata Socks Copy Share Image
“What was love if it wasn’t just a single word people used to try and describe something that wasn’t easily explained or… — Mariana Zapata Love Copy Share Image
“The fact that I’d gone out to buy him hemorrhoid cream a couple of times probably helped solidify the lines in our… — Mariana Zapata Friend zone Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, you don't get to choose family, Sonny had told me once. But you do get to choose everyone else. In this… — Mariana Zapata Choose Copy Share Image
“But I’m not a good man, and I’m gonna take everythin’ you want to give me and everythin’ you don’t.” — Mariana Zapata Good Copy Share Image
“While Louie might be the sun, Josh was the moon and the stars. He was my gravity, my tide, my ride or… — Mariana Zapata Every day Copy Share Image
“don’t have anybody special in my life anymore. To be honest… that’s why I didn’t write you back for a while. My… — Mariana Zapata Life Copy Share Image
“Back when I’d been sick, I’d always dreaded hearing other words. Spread. Lymph nodes. Amputation. Those words, those possibilities, make you grow… — Mariana Zapata Iris Copy Share Image
“It wasn't a good-looking scar. The flesh looked gnarled and silver-white against my healthy skin. After four different surgeries, I'd stopped caring… — Mariana Zapata Stopped caring Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was the thing about love I've never understood before Aiden. Like football and art, like anything that anyone in the… — Mariana Zapata Art Copy Share Image
“A group of soldiers were standing at formation when their instructor said, “All right, all you dummies fall out.” Only one man… — Mariana Zapata Eye to eye Copy Share Image
“Grandson: Were you in the war, Grandpa? Grandpa: Yes, I was a fighter pilot. Kid’s mom: Weren’t you stationed in Illinois, Dad?… — Mariana Zapata Fighter pilot Copy Share Image
“Real love was gritty. The real kind of love never quit. Someone who loved you would do what’s best for you; they’d… — Mariana Zapata Love Copy Share Image
“My rib cage clenched all of the organs and muscles within it. It pulsed, full of life and warmth and gummy bears… — Mariana Zapata Christmas morning Copy Share Image
“Knew the moment I saw you, standin’ outside the shop, scared, that you were an innocent little thing. So sweet. So good.”… — Mariana Zapata Good man Copy Share Image
“I hadn't told him the news yet, but in that same preternatural way he was always aware of what I was feeling… — Mariana Zapata Gaze Copy Share Image
“There was a lot of things about love that you could only learn after you’d faced the real kind. The best kind… — Mariana Zapata Love Copy Share Image
“Am I dying and I don’t know it?” I asked his chest. He sighed. “You better not be.” I pulled back and… — Mariana Zapata Life Copy Share Image
“Is the sun the biggest object in space?" he asked me in an even, determined voice. I had to think about that… — Mariana Zapata Asked Copy Share Image
“Maybe that was the thing about love I never understood before Aiden. Like football and art, like anything that anyone in the… — Mariana Zapata Art Copy Share Image
“In that moment, I don’t think I had ever loved anything half as much as I loved Aiden.” — Mariana Zapata Moment Copy Share Image
“Dear God. If that friendship continued, I'd probably have premature hair loss in no time.” — Mariana Zapata Dear god Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t control or anticipate a person who didn’t care. They were wildcards.” — Mariana Zapata Didn Care Copy Share Image
“Why do you look like you just found out that Kulti guy got married again?” — Mariana Zapata Look Copy Share Image
“I always thought you looked like mine, but you sure do fucking feel like youвҖҷre mine, too,” — Mariana Zapata Copy Share Image
