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“Because my mate taught me well.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

“I will be with you every step of the way,” he whispered into her palm. “Just don’t lock me out. You want to walk in silence for a week, I’m fine with that. So long as you talk to me at the end of it.”

“You don’t need to become some impossible ideal. You don’t need to become sweet & simpering. You can give everyone that I Will Slay My Enemies look—which is my favorite look, btw. You can keep that sharpness I like so much, that boldness and fearlessness. I don’t want you to ever lose those things, to cage yourself.”

“Forgiveness is something we also grant ourselves. & I can talk to you until these mountains crumble around us, but if you don’t wish to be forgiven, if you don’t want to stop feeling this way-it won’t happen.” He cupped her cheek, calluses scraping across her overheated skin.”

“Everyone deserves happiness. The road there isn’t easy. It is long, and hard, and often traveled utterly blind. But you keep going. Because you know the destination will be worthwhile.”

“I am going to tell you that you will get through it. That these tears are good, Nesta. I am going to tell you that it is not too late, not for any of it. And I can't tell you when, or how, but it will get better. Only if you are willing to face it, and embrace it, and walk through it, to emerge on the other side of it. And maybe you will still feel that tinge of pain, but there is another side. A better side.”