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real man will allow you to be your whole entire self, with breathing room and space to change your mind and even evolve it. A mere boy might let you be yourself just an eighth of the way, if you’re lucky.
“You’re not half as bad as he says you are,” I tell him. Jamison’s head tilts, and his brow furrows. “And yer twice as brave and beautiful than he lets ye think y’are.”
Hook ~ not the villain in this story! & i like it
Destiny and fate, you think you can interchange them, but you can’t. Destiny is—I believe—impacted by you and your choices and what you choose, but fate is not. It’s concrete. It’s the occurrence of events beyond a person’s control, as though determined almost by a supernatural power.
“Fer what it’s worth.” He gives me a look that makes me turn to a puddle. “I fell a long time ago.”
I feel lighter and more lost without it all at once—much less myself than I did a moment ago but also somehow less bound and perhaps even freer, because to love someone isn’t freedom; it’s to be a captive. And I was his.
