Lucy Score

There’s a difference between taking care of someone because you love them and taking care of someone because you want them to love you,”

I still get access to the same sunrises everyone else does, the same 24 hours in a day. And if I don’t take advantage of those things, it’s my own fault.”

She laughed a lot. It was a sound that warmed him up. A sound that made him realize how quiet his life had become before. A sound that made him wonder why he had valued the silence so much.

She smelled like sunshine and fire.

“Have you met me? What in my life has ever been long term? Life is too short not to grab on to the good times while they last.”

Before you start yelling, this past month has been the best I’ve had in ... I don’t even know how long. You made my house a home, you took away the chaos at work, and you gave me what I didn’t know I needed. You.

Love was the ultimate motivator.

You’re upset about something and it’s probably valid. But instead of talking to me about it, you just want to wallow in it and lash out. That’s what I’m pissed off about.”

People were odd. They said things they didn’t mean and did things that bore no relationship to what they said. I found them unpredictable, and therefore uncomfortable.

Dominic Russo was trying to take care of me.