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He saw a boy. Who loved a girl. More than anything in the world.
It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to him. It was never about belonging to someone. It was about belonging together.
“I love you,” Shahrzad breathed. “You are all that I am.” “And you are all that I will be.”
True strength isn’t about sovereignty. It’s about knowing when you need help and having the courage to accept it.”
I promised I would do for others what I’d failed to do for her. Not to profess love. But instead to act upon it.”
“From the stars, to the stars.”
“You’re beautiful,”
“Put them away at once, you miserable louts!” Shahrzad insisted. “This is why the world would be a far better place in the hands of women.”
With everyone else, he was chipped ice on a mountain. With her sister, he was a summer breeze across the sea.
Understood what it meant to feel at home wherever you were. To feel as though you belonged in any moment, at any place, in any time.
“Sometimes,” he gasped, “the family you choose … is stronger than blood.”
