tied to twisted fortune

REVERDIES — new beginnings, growth, hope.

it's a beautiful day to save lives.

i am woman. hear me roar.

i am so in love with you.

i love you. i love you all the time. every minute of every day, i love you. god that feels good to just say that. i feel so much better. i love you.

i am not an ugly duckling. i'm a swan.

don't analyze everything. just do it.

i need the day off. for drinking.

yeah, we're friends. i mean right now i'd probably say you're one of my best friends.

i take things personally. i get emotional.

pretty good is not good enough. i want to be great.

stop looking at me like that. like you've seen me naked.

more tequila. more love. more anything. more is better.

we're adults. when did that happen? how do we make it stop?

we may only be together five minutes every two months, but when we do we will savor every second. we know how valuable those five minutes are.

why do we even try when the barriers are so high and the odds are so low? why don't we just pack it in and go home?

sometimes you have to be a shark.

deal with your jealousy. deal with your shortcomings. don't put your crap on me.

the body is a slave to its impulses.

you never think that the last time is the last time. you think there will be more. you think you have forever, but you don't.

if you love someone, you tell them.

you have to go back to the beginning to understand the end.

you were like coming up for fresh air. it's like i was drowning and you saved me. that's all i know.

knowing is better than wondering.

if you aren't willing to keep looking for light in the darkest of places without stopping, even when it seems impossible, you will never succeed.

i love everything about you. even the things i don't like, i love.

i want you with me.

i love you and i think you love me too. do you?

it turns out sometimes you have to do the wrong thing.

mistakes are painful, but they're the only way to find out who we really are.

not everyone has to be happy all the time. that isn't mental health. that's crap.

sometimes it's good to be scared. it means you still have something to lose.

just because people do horrible things, it doesn't always mean they're horrible people.

make a plan. set a goal. work toward it, but every now and then look around. drink it in, 'cause this is it. it might all be gone tomorrow.

i want so much for you. for both of us. so much more than this.

i want you to feel free.

don't ever date a man who can't handle your power.

you can have the worst crap in the world happen to you and you can get over it. all you gotta do is survive.

bad things happen, but you have to move past it. leave it behind.

we don't get unlimited chances to have the things that we want.

nothing is worse than missing an opportunity that could have changed your life.

promise that you'll love me, even when you hate me.

every kiss before the right kiss doesn't count anyway.

how are you fine? how are you just completely fine?

i am ruined, okay? i am dead. i am wrecked.

you fight. until you can't find anymore.

don't let fear keep you quiet.

you have a voice, so use it.

make yourself heard.

please don't give up on me. promise. promise me you won't.

she's my person.

the problem is we are human. we want more than to just survive. we want to love.

friends are the family we choose.

don't look at me like that. like i'm damaged goods. i'm still me. i'm still here.

i'm a hot person.

i make no apologies for how i chose to repair what you broke.

bet you wish you'd taken the stairs right about now.

don't be sorry. be better.

screw beautiful. i'm brilliant. if you want to appease me, compliment my brain.

The next thing the detective might notice, as she took the offered chair and glanced up toward him, was a sharpness in her eyes. Flint of determination, mixed with a layer of control - over a hint of something else simmering underneath that she wasn't letting through.

"Thank you, Detective." A soft exhale, half-second pause as she ordered her thoughts. "First things first ..." Thera's hand dipped into her purse, slipped a laminated card across the desk. An international PI license, giving her name and her basic credentials in one hit. She gave him a second to read it before pressing on.

As she settled in, he leaned forward subtly to listen and invite her telling. He raised an eyebrow while he scanned her card. “Private investigator, hm,” tone emphasizing the unusual. Back when he was working in homicide, another city and lifetime ago, they’d cross paths with PIs regularly. There was less call for it with his current unit.

do you remember what i told you last time?

have you been doing well since i saw you?

that's not what you told me back then.

when was the last time i saw you?

you were shorter then.

i'm picking the restaurant this time.

we've known each other since we were children.

always knew i could count on you.

that time was different. this is worse.

you're not going to let me live that down, are you?

i seem to remember a conversation we had back then.

so you changed your mind about it?

do you remember our encounter in paris?

you should know me by now.

am i the only one that knows the truth?

we had a lot of help back then.

your mom told me to look out for you.

you just love bringing that back up to annoy me.

maybe don't mention my past indescretions?

this was never going to work out between us.

i told you not to get attached.

i know more about you than you think.

i was there, remember?

i'm not about to forget all the shit you put me through.

you told me you were going to try and make this work.

remember what i said to you?

the last time i saw you, things were good between us.

you never mentioned this before.

that was the longest flight of my life, and you made it worse.

can i still trust you after all that?

at least we tried to make something work.

we never discussed what happened between us.

okay, but i'm driving the car this time.

i haven't forgotten what you said last week.

i'm still thinking about your comment.

i didn't realize it was you when i first saw you.

you seem to make a lot of enemies around here.

there's not much for us to talk about.

we worked it out last time.

i know you far better than you know yourself.

we have a long history.

is that the shirt you were wearing last time?

what don't i know about you?

i haven't told them about us.

you were the only person i could go to.

you know me.

this is bigger than both of us.

i can't stand your driving.

are you taking me to the place we had dinner last time?

that's not at all what you said.

didn't we agree on that?

i thought i made it very clear where i stand.

are these the same people that came after you last time?

are you still going on about it?

can we talk about it?

staying silent about it won't help.

you're the only person who knows the real me.