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“God, please, don’t ask me to write it all down again.
It’s your turn to tell it, love.”

WAIT A DANG SECOND

“I didn’t sleep because I was tired; I slept because I dreamed, and every dream was of you.”

daaaaang 🥲

OH MY GOOOOOD

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“The images arrived with such vivid assurance, such fine-grained detail, that they felt more like memories than fantasies.”

EEEEEEEP

“I cannot say the whole truth of it because she will not speak of those times, even to me. But I have seen the scars that run over every part of her, biting deep into muscle and tendon, and I can tell you with certainty that she is mortal.”

🤧

“Test me, then. Ask me whatever you like. I know everything that’s ever happened to you.”
That got me a wry, sad smile. “Who doesn’t?”

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“A face I had seen in penny papers and fine oil paintings, in terrible street theater and political cartoons and every night in my dreams. A face I had feared and coveted and envied since I was nine years old.
Later, I would wonder how I was so sure, because none of those artists had done you justice.”

AHHHHHHHHHHHH