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With every step we take away from our home, grief braids itself more tightly into the fabric of our deepest selves. And just as I cannot pry my grief from me, discard it, and move on without it, I also cannot let go of my hope.”
belief is my hope, and hope is the light that shines even on the darkest night.”
He would lose her a thousand times over if it meant he would first have the chance to love her.
“I wish you had nothing of mine,” Eliana said through her teeth. Her cheeks burned with anger, and her heart ached in too many places.
“Not my love, not my anger, not my memories. I wish you hadn’t seen what he did to me. I wish…”
“I don’t love you,” she whispered fiercely against his skin.
A moment passed. Then she felt Simon’s hand cup the back of her head, cradling her to him. His lips touched her brow. “I know,” he replied, his voice choked with sadness. “I don’t love you either.”
“In the stars I draw your hair In the moon I find your eyes In my blood I hold your name In my bones I feel your lies.”
“I’m also trying to remember what it felt like, that first night we were together,” she whispered at last.
“It was everything,” Simon answered. He heard the brittle sound of his voice as if he no longer belonged to his own body and was listening from somewhere distant, somewhere golden and warm within the light of their rising power. “You were everything that night. You were the entire world, and I was safe inside you. For once, I felt safe.”
may be a monster,” Rielle said, the words thick with pain, “but I am no longer yours.”
But out of everything in the shop, as wonderful as it all was, Eliana liked Simon best of all.
