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What is done is done, and I desire to focus on the future, not on the past, because it will be in the future where we win or lose this war against evil.
“You don’t need silks and cosmetics to seduce me.” His breath brushed her ear. “Because I’m already in love with you. So in love with you that sometimes I can’t breathe when you step into the room. Yet it’s the thought of you leaving that makes my heart stutter in my chest, because I don’t know how to live without you.”
Perhaps not even then, because I never want to forget what I survived. Remembering what I can endure gives me strength.”
The world holds up those with no stains upon their hands as heroes, never stopping to think that their hands are clean because they never had to fight for their lives. They never had to stand in the mud, with every path leading to blood, and make a choice. Sometimes there is no right choice. Sometimes there is only the choice you can live with. And sometimes there isn’t even that.”
“Forgiveness must be earned with acts of valor, but by allowing me to live, my wife has given me a chance at redemption.”
I think that there comes a point when the grime is too thick to wash off. A point when you stop trying to be the hero, so that new heroes can step forward. People whose hopes and dreams and ambitions aren’t yet smeared with the filth that comes with seeing them through.” She shook her head. “It sounds bittersweet, but saying it makes me feel as though a weight has been lifted from my shoulders.”
