Against a Wall
Cate C. Wells
Top 10 Best Quotes
“She’s the prettiest damn thing I’ve ever seen. Her blue hair’s up in a ponytail, and she’s wearing her thin gold nose ring. She’s in her socks. They’ve got cats on them. Floating cat heads with party hats. I’m pretty sure I recognize her jeans. I’ve been ogling her ass in them since high school. I’m gonna marry this girl. We’re gonna live in our cabin up on the mountain and have babies and dogs coming out of our ears. “Why are you smiling?” she asks, suspicious. She’s gone back into her shell. That’s all right. She let me in. I’ll coax her out again soon enough. “Thinking about how many babies and dogs we’ll have.” “Babies?” “Um-hum,” I drawl. I love to watch her squirm. “Twins run in my family, obviously.”
“No one has the patience for old grief. After a while, you’re supposed to keep it to yourself. Shove it under the bed or the back of the closet. Holding on to it is unhealthy, right? But grief’s not an animal on a leash. It stays, regardless of how tight or loose you hold on. It settles in. It walks alongside you.”
“You trapped Phat Thom for me.” My buzzy brain is puzzling something out. “You’re with a mighty hunter, babe. I keep tellin’ you.” He does. I turn to face him. He blinks, surprised, and angles himself to face me, too. He frowns. This isn’t the reaction he expected. To be honest, I never expected this either. I take his hands. He tilts his head. The sun glints off the fishhook on the brim of his hat. I smile. “Will you marry me?” I ask. “All it took was a freakin’ giant turkey?” he says. He scoops me into his arms, and twirls me and kisses me, whooping and hollering. Phat Thom is going nuts, flapping and squawking. I laugh and shriek, and Cash’s voice rings through the meadow as he says, “Yes, baby. Yes. No take backs.” And I know then I never will.”
“This woman owns me, and she has no idea.”
“Then, as soon as he sees Toby on his phone at a table in the empty dining room, he clears his throat, smirks as smarmy as I’ve ever seen, and announces, “Sorry for the inconvenience, man. Just ate Glenna’s sweet pussy until she called my name instead of God’s. Apparently, she’s never had it so good, but don’t be too hard on yourself, my dude.” Cash has been walking and talking, and when he passes Toby, he claps him hard on the shoulder. “You like to run your mouth to tear a woman down. I got other skills.”
“Listen up.” His voice booms. Everyone shuts up. “I’m gonna find who pushed her, and this right here is gonna be child’s play. You got me?” I’ve never heard him sound so serious. “Anyone lays a hand on her again, I’ll fucking end you. You say the name ‘Del Willis’ around her again, I will end you.” He enunciates each of the last four words. “Is that fucking clear?”
“It doesn’t stop him from popping the question, but at least he does it less frequently. He used to do it basically every time we had sex or there was a nice sunset or something.”
“I want her to choose me when she could choose anything.”
“I just walked ten miles in the pitch dark for you. I could get eaten by a bear. I WOULD get eaten by a bear for you. Voluntarily. My lips are softening. Little fizzes are going off in my chest like sparklers. I bought all your pictures like a stalker but I don’t care and you can’t have them back. There are dots, but I interrupt them. Why? He replies immediately. You know why.”
“I feel strange. Nothing’s resolved. You can’t fix the past. But still— It’s like the memory—at least this one—was the beach at the end of the day, messy with piles of sand and holes and footprints—and now it’s the morning, and it’s all still there, but smoothed out. For now. Nothing’s made right—you can’t change the past—but somehow, something has still been remade.”
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Book Keywords:
cute-guys, love, healing, grief-and-loss, forgiveness, cute-things-guys-say, cocky, grief
