More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Within every human being is the power to see the world as it is and still be compelled to save it.
“Do you ever wonder if maybe it’s supposed to be us?” It felt inevitable, that moment. That question. Like every alternate path still led them here. Like somewhere innate, they both knew they’d spent lifetimes dancing around the gravitational pull of the obvious. “Yes,” Nico said. “I do.”
“I will spend my life orbiting yours,” Nico said, and the exhaustion in his voice, she knew it. She understood it. “I consider it a privilege. Does that mean less if we never sleep together? If we never have babies and hold hands, does that have to mean less? You’re in every world I exist in, your fate is my fate,
What you’re willing to accept doesn’t change what I’m willing to give.”
This is the problem with knowledge: its inexhaustible craving. The madness inherent in knowing there is only more to know.
