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She would not let herself fade away.
“when I heard it was you I’d be getting, I was looking forward to breaking you.” He shook his head. “But I don’t think it’s possible to exceed what you’ve done to yourself.”
“I feel like I can breathe again,” she said, wishing she could feel this calm without being frozen. “Like I’d been drowning so long, I’d forgotten what oxygen feels like.”
she would like to be loved. To know what it was to feel wanted.
She screamed as if she could shatter the world with it.
She couldn’t fix herself anymore, and no one else seemed inclined to even notice she was breaking.
“You’re like a rose in a graveyard,”
“You made me feel like the parts of me that aren’t useful still deserve to exist. Like I’m not just all the things I can do.”
“You are not replaceable,” he said, his hands trembling against her shoulders. “You are not required to make your death convenient. You are allowed to be important to people.
“I think I’ve nearly memorised you,” she said. “Especially your eyes. I think I learned to read them first.”
“I should have known—the moment I looked into your eyes, I should have known I would never win against you.”
“Call me, and I will come.”
“Being alive is not the same as living. I hope someday you’ll have a chance to realise the difference.”
Someday, she promised herself, someday I am going to love him in a moment that isn’t stolen.
“You’ve always done the worst things because of me.”
“We have to stop hurting ourselves for each other,” she finally said. “Both of us. We’re not going to last if this is the only way we know how to love.”
“Love isn’t as pretty or pure as people like to think. There’s a darkness in it sometimes. Kaine and I go hand in hand. I made him who he is. I knew what that array meant when I saved him. If he’s a monster, then I’m his creator.”
