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“Matilda smiled at me. That is when I knew I was doomed, knee-deep in this quandary.
I loved her.
I had loved her for a long time and I did not know what to do about it.”

“And for a moment, our hearts were young again.”

“She was not mine by spoken tow but something deeper. Something that felt older, stronger, darker, like a language that had been sung centuries ago but had now been forgotten. Something that simmered in the blood, calling to me, calling to her.
How I had resisted that pull, as if it were something to fear. A weakness that would doom me should I let myself surrender to it. I did not want to fight it any longer”

“He dreamt of me before I knew of him. His soul found mine before I even knew how to look for his.”

“I stared up at the sky, naming the constellations, until I found hers, a bright six points. Herald of the gods. A kestrel in flight. I willed those stars to burn always, because I could not bear to imagine them ever going dark.”

“She had an uncanny way of making one feel like he was the only one in the world, as if she saw the deeper layers of a soul that no one else could see.”

“Sometimes it’s good to laugh, even on terrible days.”