Arwy

“I burned all our bridges - not knowing that love knows how to swim.”
― Laura Chouette

“The bravest thing
she ever did
was to stay alive
each day.”
― Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

“You weren’t given wings
to see the world from a tree.”
― Atticus Poetry, The Dark Between Stars

“Tell me again what you said at the revel,” he says, climbing over me, his body against mine.

“What?” I can barely think.

“That you hate me,” he says, his voice hoarse. “Tell me that you hate me.”

“I hate you,” I say, the words coming out like a caress. I say it again, over and over. A litany. An enchantment. A ward against what I really feel. “I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.”

He kisses me harder.

“I hate you,” I breathe into his mouth. “I hate you so much that sometimes I can’t think of anything else.”
― Holly Black, The Wicked King