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“Will you think of me while you’re away?” His response nearly sets my heart on fire. “How could I not? Forgetting you must mean I am dead, for I cannot see how it would be possible otherwise.”
It’s asinine, is it not? To be who we are simply because it’s what someone else told us to be? I’m done standing on custom, and I hope that does not offend, but I don’t need anyone here to stand on custom, either. This is a table, correct?” I pat the surface of the roughened wood beside me. “Surely I may eat on it?”
“Of all the battles he faced, all the adversaries and trials and monsters, not a single one could fell him. Not a one except for love.”
“I know it’s sad. Terribly sad. But that sword reminds me of how powerful love can be. It’s a weapon far greater than any steel. And no one, not even a vengeful god, can take it away.”
“It’s like…everyone assumes the most important relationship they’ll have in their life is a romantic one. They want the one. They want the person they’ll share passion with and go on dates with. They want to settle down and maybe have a family. They want romance, and as soon as they have that, it eclipses everything else.” The light catches Grayson’s eyes as he turns my way, the blue so light it’s nearly clear. There’s an urgency in his gaze, the same present in his voice. “What about friendship? What about family? Why can’t a person feel fulfilled if they never marry? Why can’t the absolute
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Love is boundless. It’s immeasurable and immense. Beauty on its own. It’s the reason a person’s eyes soften. It’s why we go to great lengths just to make someone smile.
“I would say I’d have loved you in whatever form you came to me. In whatever time. I would defend you with my dying breath, and I would follow you wherever it is you go. The pieces of us were made to fit, Gray. To be drawn together and shared. You told me once bound stars are destined to go out together. And I’m glad for it. Because I can’t imagine a life, now or ever, without you in it.”
“You’re only powerless if you believe yourself to be.” The words are spoken firmly, the same ones he gave me before. “We always have choices in life. We weave fate, Lee Donovan. Not the other way around.”
A person doesn’t fear the end. They fear losing what they’ve gained. They fear loss. And the greatest loss, the thing we hold most dear and what drives our passion, our thirst for knowledge, the bonds we forge along the way…is love.
