Patrycja

“I chose you. Nothing and no one will change that choice.”
“Not even your soulmate?”
“I feel like maybe I know myself better than the universe knows me. I know what’s right for me. What makes me happy.”
“And what’s that?”
“You.”
― A.M. Rose, Faces

“I never thought it could be that way,” Lorin said, swallowing against the weight of what he was about to say. “You made everything make sense.”
― A.M. Rose, Found in Obscurity

“I don’t need help in my journey,” he argued, and she threw him a look that would have made braver men cower in fear.
“No, you need a full navigational system, a ship captain, and someone to hold your hand.” She looked away with a dismissive flap of her hand.”
― A.M. Rose, Found in Obscurity

“My heart knows it’s you. That’s the only thing I could think of. I couldn’t empty my mind because you’re there all the time. And so that’s what comes out.”
“Me?” Hayden asked, and Dorian nodded.
“The way you make me feel. The way I feel when I hear your voice or your laugh. It’s the softness of your hair under my fingers. It’s the breath you let out in my ear before you wake up in the morning. It’s how you read to me before bed, how you carry me when there’s puddles on the street, and how you always muss up my hair even more even though you always mock me about how messy it already is. Everything is you. But it’s because I already love you. It’s because I know you, and I’m drawing you because you’re everything I know. We can’t know that you’re my soulmate. Because this isn’t how this should go.”
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“Why can’t it be enough? That I make you feel like this.” He motioned toward the pictures, knowing Dorian couldn’t see. “You used every color you owned. Every last one. That’s how much you feel for me. And it’s not enough.”
― A.M. Rose, Faces