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When you love people, you don’t let them destroy you along with themselves, you don’t allow them to drag you through the mud. You try to help them, try to save them, but the moment that your love is one-sided or selfish, if you keep trying, you are a fool.
people can only change themselves, no matter how hard you try. They have to want it as bad as you do or there is no hope.
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.
thought ours was a love of the novels, a love that no matter how hard and fast and tough it was, I thought we would survive anything and everything and live to tell the story.”
He wants to remind her that whatever their souls are made of, his and hers are the same. Their favorite novel said it best.
“You won’t know how lucky you are to be able to spend your life with the other half of your soul until you have to spend your life without them.”
We had a rule, only one rule in our house: no fighting in front of our kids. My children would never hear me raise my voice to their mum. Ever.
AFTER EVERYTHING, we made it. Whatever the hell our souls are made of, they are the same.
