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I cry for the rest of the day. And when I wake up after twenty-four hours of Luke gone, I know I can’t live like this, that I can’t keep pretending. I know, even when I told myself I belonged to Danny, it was Luke who kept my heart beating and my blood hot in my veins, and without him, nothing matters.
“I thought I was going to die, and the only thing that mattered, the only thing I wanted, was you,” he says against my mouth. “You were all I fucking thought about.”
“You’re something wild and magnificent, and he has no idea how to take care of you, so he spends all his time making sure your cage is secure because he has no idea what else to do. And that’s why this kills me, Juliet. Because I think I do know how to take care of you, and I want to take his place so bad that it fucking hurts to look at you sometimes.”
“Luke, I love you so much I’m sick from it, so much that you’ve ruined my happiness, because no matter how good my life is I will always want you. And I will always want you more than all the rest. But walking away isn’t nearly as easy as you think.”
I can’t imagine anything better than where we are because I’ve seen the entire world now, and it was meaningless without him.
People talk about love like it’s peaceful, but it isn’t, at all. It’s turbulent and anxious. It’s euphoria and despair. It’s the willingness to brave cold water and humiliation and stab the people who love you in the back. I’ll do all those things for Luke.
“I haven’t loved many things in this world,” he says, “but I loved you from the minute I saw you, and whether it’s today or seventy years from now, I’ll love you with my dying breath.”
“Choose me, Juliet,” he whispers. “Please fucking choose me.”
“Don’t try to tell a man who’s waited ten years for you that you love him more.”
“I don't care how much time it took, as long as you’re mine in the end. I told you I’d wait forever, but I’m glad I didn’t have to.”
