“My face went straight to between his pecs, burying itself there, cradling my face like the hardest and best-looking boobs in the… — Mariana Zapata Gaze Copy Share Image
“Aiden, come on, if you beat the shit out of someone with a bat, they're going to look for suspects. Once they… — Mariana zapata Suspects 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
“My schnecke. My little snail, do you know that’s what it means? It’s a term of affection in my country. My love.… — Mariana Zapata Love Copy Share Image
“Right then, in that moment, Dex The Dick grinned. Grinned. And sweet mother of God, it was devastating. So completely catastrophic I… — Mariana Zapata Devastating Copy Share Image
“I was going to murder his ass. One day. One day long after I quit, so no one would suspect me. “Aiden,”… — Mariana Zapata Aiden Grumbled Copy Share Image
“Dad… I… I don’t know. I don’t even know what to think about all of it. We’re in completely different leagues. I’m… — Mariana Zapata Conceited Copy Share Image
“His forehead tipped forward, and before I could react, before he said another word to me, he leaned forward, forward, forward and… — Mariana Zapata Leaned Forward Copy Share Image
“Don't ever do that to me again. I'm too young to die of a heart attack." (...) "I would say claiming you're… — Mariana Zapata Heart attack Copy Share Image
“I would have done just about anything for you back then, even when you got on my nerves. I might have just… — Mariana Zapata Last minute Copy Share Image
“I'm going to break into your room when you're sleeping at night and take a shit on your face if you ever… — Mariana Zapata Door Open Copy Share Image
“There it was. That fierce loyalty. He didn't have a clue how that was the most attractive thing about him. It trumped… — Mariana Zapata Dex Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know why I felt so… hopeless, but I did. I wanted to absorb his words and take them to heart,… — Mariana Zapata Friendship Copy Share Image
“I hugged him even tighter. It was in that moment, when I was hugging him as if my life depended on it,… — Mariana Zapata Life Copy Share Image
“Tall and still in fantastic shape, my poor, stupid, stupid heart gave a little thump in recognition of an attractive man. Then… — Mariana Zapata Attractive man Copy Share Image
“Loneliness even when you’re surrounded by others is something I understand well. I’m” — Mariana Zapata Loneliness Copy Share Image
“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 always thought you looked like mine, but you sure do fucking feel like youвҖҷre mine, too,” — Mariana Zapata Copy Share Image
“It was a blinding kind of thing, this unbelievable friendship—this love—I had with and for him. It was mine and it made… — Mariana Zapata Friendship Copy Share Image
“He shook his head and raised his gaze, his long eyelashes sweeping low as he leveled that ring of warm brown on… — Mariana Zapata Shook Head Copy Share Image
“In the words of a rap song my neighbor used to play on his boombox when I was a kid: Hold up,… — Mariana Zapata Music 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
“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
“I needed to go help because it was the right thing to do and because I needed to be a role model… — Mariana Zapata Needed help Copy Share Image
“I gave him an ‘are you kidding me’ look that had him chuckling in response. “I want to see them.” “See what?”… — Mariana Zapata Chicken wings 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
“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 Boyfriend 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
“Mostly though, Rubes, I want to go back in time and beat every single person’s ass who’s ever made you doubt yourself,… — Mariana Zapata Aaron Copy Share Image
“At first, you really were just a nice stranger. Then you were my friend, and I really did want you to be… — Mariana Zapata Friends to lovers Copy Share Image
“You say that as if there were anyone else in this world I would want. You have no idea what I feel… — Mariana Zapata Concerned 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
“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
