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“I love you, and I have loved you, and I will love you.”
Whatever a soul was, it could be carried in a notebook.
And so, in the absence of any abiding religious convictions, this was the one blind faith I had: that love was a physical force, and it was never wasted. Once it was called out into the universe, it would echo back to us forever.
“My love for you could fill an ocean, Evelyn.” There was an awful resignation to her tone. “But it can’t stop the tide of time.” I knew in that moment that she was going to do it, and so I resolved to do it first.
Because that’s the thing about humans—we leave traces of our souls everywhere, as unique and identifying as fingerprints.
“It’s impossible to have bravery without fear. Bravery is picking up the fear and carrying it alongside you, rather than allowing it to block the path.”
I was so tired of sailing through history like a hunk of driftwood that could never grow roots.
“Love can make a villain of anyone,”
a raindrop falling through the cracks in my cupped palms, returning irrevocably to the scorched earth below.
The cruelest fate the gods and stars had ever written: the person I loved most in the world was the person who would ultimately destroy me.
