Something Like Fate

by Amy Lea

when it’s finished and he rolls over with a single grunt, I can’t help but feel a swell of disappointment.

“Grief is love persevering.”

Not everyone we love is meant to stay.

My whole life I’ve thought with my head, and you . . . you make me think with my heart.”

“It’s easy to have fun with someone on all these elaborate adventures. But the real challenge is finding someone to enjoy the mundane. Someone who makes you look forward to the blurry gray of everyday life. That takes someone special. That’s what’s real.”

Maybe epic love is when there’s no one else in the world you’d rather have a million mundane Tuesdays with.

Being with Caleb felt like being whisked away on life’s greatest adventure, but Teller feels like coming home.