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January 11 - January 18, 2025
She craved an escape, he craved to be found, two silent hearts thirsty, until they both drowned.
omfg stop it - i am going to perish
I’ve been watching you.
stop it right now i cant
You’ve been gone for a while … or maybe you never left.
what is going on
Take my advice. When money is easy and fast, it doesn’t last.
there ya go
You should hurry before it returns, but don’t use the front door. Leave through the black door in the back, between the two bookcases. I promise we’ll see each other again. In the meantime, let’s keep this conversation between you and me a little secret. My name? Oh, you know my name, darling. You’ve heard it before. I’m Freddy in the Mourning.
This whole chapter---- brilliant. I love it. Breaking the fourt wall. Up to speed. Excellent.
The sea was a collector of things.
my heart <3
One June, after Mom could no longer speak, we waded in the shallow while Dad held Mom in the deep. Mom returned with puffy eyes and no smile, and Dad returned without his wedding band. He’d said a wave slipped it right off his finger. After all this time, the ocean never returned her smile or his wedding band.
beautiful story telling here
I stood deathly still, keeping my feet just behind the waterline, daring the sea to come and collect me, too. Come treasure me, too. Come love me, too.
stop it <3
“Just because you choose to spend this time hating her doesn’t mean I want to. To you, she’s gone. But to me, she’s downstairs, alive and breathing.”
damn
I tried to keep my thoughts at bay while pouring alcohol. What are you doing, Adora? my mind repeated as I layered the wound with medicine. But something kept me anchored here, caring for him, unable to stop. Mine, my heart proclaimed as I wrapped a bandage tightly around his torso. The sea gave him to me.
<3
“Only the starving, evil, or insecure prey on the weak.” His hooded eyes narrowed as if to puncture my soul. “Which one are you?”
damn
“I’m sorry your mother poisoned you,” I finally whispered to him. The darkness in Stone’s eyes slipped away, and I could feel his two leather thumbs stroke the small space at my sides. “I’m not. Not anymore.”
<3
CHAPTER 27 STONE Circe returned the following day, swathed in layers—a fur coat, knitted scarf, and jeans so tight it could break the skin. She’d explained that the person who showed up was a maid named Alice. She’d insisted she wouldn’t return. While we searched for dry wood, the only sound was our footsteps in the snow. As I walked behind her, I wondered how small and delicate a person could be and yet still take up so much space in the forest, on the island, in my world. She was the sun, who shone a light on me, making me question if she were gone, who would I be, and would I exist at all?
...more
ouch ouch omg ugh
I didn’t know time could slow when you were taken, either. Not taken by fear but taken by something else. Just taken altogether. I didn’t know. No one had told me.
<3
“I’m afraid since we’re not there to remind you, you’ll forget. Here’s a little hint.” She leaned in and snatched a shot glass from my hand. “The more you pretend it’s not there, the louder it screams,” she insisted, and threw her head back, swallowing the liquor in one gulp. When she finished, she turned the glass over and dropped it onto the table.
<3
“Stone,” I cried, my voice losing substance. “You’re a fucking Heathen.” “No, Adora,” he scraped out, gutted, squinting an eye and pointing at me. “No, I’m fucking yours.”
ahhhhhhhh!!!!!
“Adora! ... Adora! ... Adora!” Cyrus screams, but Stone, Stone, Stone, my heart echoes.
<3
“No, you don’t have to do anything,” he said. “You’re the author. I’m just the blank pages you whisper your secrets to, then the thing you crumble and toss to the side. I’m the book in the palm of your hands. In the end, this story is yours. You can write it whichever way you want.”
I kissed her temple. “It felt like my lungs were being ripped from my chest.” I tried to stop the chattering of my teeth by clenching my jaw. “I would give you my final breath, Adora Danvers.” “Sullivan.” “For now.”
<3
Stone and I looked into each other’s eyes, watching me strike his cheek with my palm, and it hurts in my heart, not on my face. It hurts, but this wasn’t what he wanted me to see or feel. It was what came next, and our eyes catch, skin against skin, blonde wisps of hair in my face, flares of starved, green eyes, waves of warmth crashing into me one after the other, pure bliss, so light it could take me to my knees, so heavy it could take me to my grave; the feel of her bound to me, the taste of her on my lips, the smell of her surrounding me, the sound of her breathing, the way she’s holding
...more
omfg
“What I feel for you knows no time or place,” he whispered, his warm words ruffling my hair. “My love for you awakened without warning, slowly and in an instant, in one throbbing heartbeat ... and I’m in love with you always, my darling ... Do you hear me?”
oof
“You have an answer to everything,” he said. “Lie not and you’ll forget nothing,” I replied.
tea
“I’m so going to find you, Adora Danvers,” I whispered, everything blurry. I wiped my face to see her better, then held hers again, keeping her flush against me. “When the time comes, I don’t care what year it is or who your soulmate is, I’m coming for you.”
<3
We have a love that outlasts love. Fate was never on our side, but we didn’t need it. Time stood in our way, so we created our own. Nothing could ever dissever my soul from your soul, as Poe would say. You are my love, my life, my wife.
oh god
The distance between us dwindled with every free-handed stroke. As I drew closer, I noticed relief carved into his features. A smile was beaming across his face.
<3
