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I knew she wasn’t the daughter of Vello kinda obvious

‘I love you with a force that could destroy planets and universes, Lila. (..) I will love that baby as my own, because anything born of you is bound to be perfection. (..) But make no mistake. I will always love you more. Than him. Than me. Than this world. My love for you is not pretty, or flowery, or romantic. But it’s real, and it’s everlasting.’

“I didn’t miss my other eye often. But when I did, it was because it took me twice as long to watch every atom of my wife’s existence every night. To count each of her thirty-three beauty spots—yes, including the one behind her ear. Her fourteen freckles, all of them peppered across her celestial nose. All the twenty shades of yellow and silver in her hair.”
I have no words

“I was a junkie. Addicted to my wife. There wasn’t a low too low for me to stoop to in order to get my next hit.”

He found his reason to live no stop guys I’m going to bawl my eyes out

She didn’t want to put her shoes in a puddle so he took his peacoat and lay it down on the puddle so she could walk on it STOP THIS MAN IS SUCH A SIMP and proceeded to clean off her shoes on his knees before her IN FRONT OF EVERYONE STOP someone needs to put me in a cage because I’m going feral

‘I’m off the market.’
‘Till when?’
‘Death and beyond.’
Stop this man

I’m utterly shocked I just found out what the first phrase in each of his chapters meant I want to cry

“We. Won.”
That made me emotional

“Lila made people around her feel seen. Probably because she’d been overlooked her entire life.”