If I’m ever in an accident, watch my hands, son. If they’re moving, that means I’m okay. They’re not moving. I stare at them. Waiting for them to move. Then the fire erupts. Then my world changes forever.
“And it was a magical thing, to love someone so much; it was a feeling so strange and slippery, like a sheath of fabric cut from the sky.”
― In Memoriam
― In Memoriam
“I don’t want to see the world through rose-colored glasses. I want to see it with a wildflower heart like yours, desperately chasing after what makes me happy, wild, and free. And most of all, I want to chase after it with you.”
― Redeemed
― Redeemed
“For the first time in a long time, I don’t want to turn back the clock, either.” He looks up from his hands, hitting me with a stare filled with mixed emotions. “Why?” “Because you make me want to live in the present rather than kill myself by focusing on the past.”
― Redeemed
― Redeemed
“I don’t need a happy ending. I need our ending. The one that might be messy and imperfect, but exclusively ours.”
― Wrecked
― Wrecked
“He thought perhaps all the pain would sour the love, but instead it drew him further in, as if he were Marc Antony, falling on his own sword. And it was a magical thing, to love someone so much; it was a feeling so strange
and slippery, like a sheath of fabric cut from the sky.”
― In Memoriam
and slippery, like a sheath of fabric cut from the sky.”
― In Memoriam
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