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November 14 - November 16, 2024
Will looked at him in puzzlement. “Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine’s ‘genuphobia.’ It means an unreasonable fear of knees.”
“I would never let anyone touch a hair on your head. You know that, don’t you, Tess?”
“I feel myself diminished, parts of me spiraling away into the darkness, that which is good and honest and true—If you hold it away from yourself long enough, do you lose it entirely? If no one cares for you at all, do you even really exist?”
But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.
“When we made our oath, as parabatai. Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.”
“Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.”
Lies and secrets, Tessa, they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.”
We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.