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“It’s figuring out what burns inside of you, and then letting it guide you.” My eyes probe her face. “What guides you, Sofie? What’s your fire?”
“Put up that guard and pretend to disparage something you want because you’re not sure how to get it.”
“My dick doesn’t rule me, Sofie, and neither will you. I have two heads, and that’s not the one in charge.”
“Hunger.” His eyes never leave my face, like he’s searching for glimpses of it again. “An appetite for significance. To feel like you’re contributing something, adding something. I thought I recognized it in you because I remember it in myself. Remember wondering where I fit in all the needs around me.”
livelihood. Knowledge is the greatest charity because it continues giving.”
When we’re young, we live for the good times, setting moments on fire, laughing and dancing in the flames. We’re invincible. No one tells you the memories may haunt you like ghosts, knocking around when the house is quiet and you’re alone with your regret. No one tells you about the rubble of your destruction. No one tells you that you’ll get burned, and those fiery moments become your mistakes. At least no one told me. I wish they had. With this good man at my side who deserves more than the ashes of my transgressions, I wish more than anything someone had told me.
Your story is your most powerful weapon. We must use our hurts to help.
I want him fiercely. Not the handsome face, or the tower of muscle and bone. I want his secrets. I want his dreams. I want his hopes. I want everything I’ve never cared about with anyone else.
He’s more important to me than I am to me, and I’m more important to him than he is to himself.