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He reads the title aloud: “A Court of Thorns and Roses. What’s it about?” “It’s about a girl who basically gets kidnapped by a sexy faerie,”
Hah!
“You remind me of someone,” he admits. “Oh! Who?” “She’s not real,” he replies. “I’m just trying to explain why I can’t stop looking at you.”
Idon’t want to get ahead of myself, but I think Ash might quite fancy me in this dress. Out of the corner of my eye, I keep catching him looking at me and it’s making me feel as though the electrical cables intersecting the cornflower-blue sky are charging my bloodstream as well as the trams.
Dreams Are for Those Who Sleep in Beds
“So why physics and astronomy?” His smile instantly becomes relaxed and easy. “My answer is going to make me sound like I’m a five-year-old boy,” he warns, before adding, “I love space.”
“My answer is going to make me sound like I’m a five-year-old boy,” he warns, before adding, “I love space.”
Things could be a little hectic at home, but when I looked at the night sky, everything else just sort of faded away. It all seemed so still and peaceful, but later I learned that it wasn’t still or peaceful, that there are whole other worlds up there raging with storms and being blasted apart by volcanoes, and all of it made me feel small, as though anything I was dealing with was inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Space has always taken me outside of myself.”
I can relate to this
Yesterday that was a new moon—it rises and sets with the sun, so you don’t see it at all. When the earth, the moon, and the sun line up like that, the pull of gravity is at its strongest, so the tides are more extreme. You get the same effect when it’s a full moon too, but for the next week or so, the tide line will continue to recede.”
“I
I guess you bring out the best in me too.”
“He said that if he’d known how little time he had, he would have swum in more rivers and stayed up late more often to watch the stars. He wished he’d cherished the sound of the rain on the roof and the birdsong in the woods. But the thing is, Taran did appreciate all of those things. He just knew what he loved and regretted not doing more of it.”
“Follow your own path. Life is too short not to do what you love. You and I know that better than most.”
Life is too short not to do what you love.
Harri and Bethan are gardeners at my level, although they’re both a couple of years younger than I am. Siân, my new housemate, works in the kitchens.
The three days we spent together felt like the start of something. And when he didn’t call or turn up, when he left me stranded and alone, it destroyed me. I had the biggest high followed by the lowest low and I still haven’t recovered.
