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“I’m so used to thinking of myself in terms of my flaws. Yet here she is, reframing my very existence as an inherent strength. I didn’t think it was possible to love her more, but every day, every hour, she finds a way. Sometimes—miraculously—she even manages to make me like myself, too.”

“It’s incredible, I think, that one day could hold one of the worst, and one of the best, moments of my life, all in one.”

“I love you,” she finishes fiercely, and for just a heartbeat, the world stops. “I love you, too,” I hear myself say, and it’s the truth.

You’ve redefined what happiness is. Each night, I climb into bed excited because when I wake, I get to live another day knowing you. The only thing that matters is you, Danni. I wanted to become a better person, but you make me good. I need you, and I need the version of me I become when I’m with you. If I lose you, I lose me, and I will fight for you until I’m broken and bloodied if that’s what it takes.

“You,” she says, turning her face to me, “are my favorite person. Do you know that? My favorite person in the world.”

Although I was raised to believe that unflinching meant to remain stoic in the face of terror and despair, I’m starting to consider that perhaps it’s quite the opposite. To see fear approaching and avert one’s eyes is little more than hiding. To allow pain to engulf you when it arrives—to invite suffering now and still climb to your feet once the wave has washed past? That is what it truly means not to flinch

"She stares at me, and I despise it, because she's mesmerizingly beautiful, and I wish she wasn't. And all I want to do is roll back time and somehow turn a moment into an eternity, erasing the "after" altogether. I may only get one life, but if I had the choice, I would spend the rest of it kissing her-every wretched second I have left-just so l would never have to face breaking apart for the last time."

"She stares at me, and I despise it, because she’s mesmerizingly beautiful, and I wish she wasn’t. And all I want to do is roll back time and somehow turn a moment into an eternity, erasing the “after” altogether. I may only get one life, but if I had the choice, I would spend the rest of it kissing her—every wretched second I have left—just so I would never have to face breaking apart for the last time."

“There’s a difference,” I say, “between shutting people out, and shutting down.”

They finallyyy got together 🥹