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“I am the King, you realize.” “And I’m the daughter of a deity, motherfucker.”
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The past is what it is—good and bad, it’s written and unchanging. And there’s solace to be had in that.”
“The good parts are more luminous because you can trust them. And the bad parts can’t get any more tragic for precisely the same reason. The past is safe because it is indelible.”
Life was not an à la carte buffet where you got to fill your plate with whatever you wanted. You didn’t get to choose your entrée and your sides and go back for more when maybe you had three bites of meat left and had run out of mashed potatoes. And hell, when she thought about it logically, getting True Love along with Happily Married and Hot Sex Life was already one hell of a trifecta.
The Rolling Stones were right. Sometimes, you didn’t get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.
They are as empty without a young as we are empty without them. It was probably the only thing that really punched past all the fear: For him, waking up without Beth had been the worst kind of revelation—and if that was the way she felt without a baby, then it was going to be a cold-bed overtime for the both of them.
