The Library of Borrowed Hearts

by Lucy Gilmore

But we always, always put our love first.

It had taken me a long journey through Jasper’s past to realize it, but life was better when you had something to hold on to. Not memories and not hopes, but something real. Someone real.

I wasn’t crying for myself so much as for all the things that had been given up in this place of shattered dreams and broken hearts.

“Well, that’s not true. It’s the same relentless, beautiful, soul-crushing place it’s always been. But it’s bigger now. More connected. If you don’t like where you are, you don’t have to pack up your whole family and abandon everything you know and love. All you have to do is grab a different story from the shelf.”