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If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Her calm surrender to logic quiets the raging storm of fury and madness which plagues my mind. By the same design, my chaotic frenzy awakens her heartsick soul with maddening vigor. One cannot exist without the other. I cannot exist without her.
“If Alister touches you again, I’ll flay his skin from his tendons and carve my initials in his bones.”
“It’s heated glances and charged near touches. It’s cruel words and fiery tempers. It’s instant chemical attraction across a quad when you make that first real connection, when you feel the center of gravity shift…and you know nothing will ever be the same again.”
“The villain only becomes such after he’s lost that which he cannot live without,” he says. “I’m in no need of a metamorphosis. I refuse to lose you.”
For instance, the empty space between the flame and wick on a candle is called the dark zone. The void that draws the eye despite the luminous flame. I think it’s in our nature to seek out the darkest aspect. Our desire to fill that negative space.
Or maybe it’s our primitive warning system; the beautiful, dancing flicker will burn if we get too close.
Falling for a man who I can never trust… That is the real danger.
“Choice is the most powerful weapon we have, Halen. As a woman, you know this. I’m not taking your choice away from you.”
To deny this inherently savage part of ourselves is to deny our very existence, our consciousness—to allow the disease to creep in through the slats of our mind and rot us from the inside out.
