Hearts On Lease Quotes

“Saying she got under my skin wouldn’t even cut it. She lived
there. Rent-free, lights on, feet on the coffee table, sipping her Sencha
green tea, enjoying one of her books. It wasn’t a crush or anything
sentimental, it went even beyond that. Tara Baker was a damn splinter
lodged too deep to pull out. I had tried so many times and failed, and
now that I finally was around her, I had to admit … I liked the pain.”
― Artemis Watson, Hearts on Lease

“But how do you get someone out of your system when she’s woven into it? We were fifteen when I first saw her and she never once left my head since. No matter how far our roads strayed from each other, how many distractions I found, she was always there, comfortably taking up more and more space. How do you get away from that? The answer is ... you don’t. You simply don’t. You let her destroy you in any way she wants as long as you get even a minute of her.”
― Artemis Watson, Hearts on Lease

“I couldn’t remember being hugged like this. Like I was worth the effort. Like comforting me wasn’t an obligation the way it was with family. Like my tears weren’t an inconvenience or a childish tantrum. No one had ever embraced the parts of me I hated. The mess, the silence, the moods that came and went without warning. No one had ever looked at the disaster I was without walking away at the first opportunity. Even in the rare moments when I’d allowed someone else to see my tears, I hadn’t asked for the comfort I craved. I wanted to hide, but the truth was, I needed him right now. My body was limp against his, as if it’d already decided that this was it, this was the pillow that would soften my fall.”
― Artemis Watson, Hearts on Lease