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“Wild women are an unexplainable spark of life. They ooze freedom and seek awareness, they belong to nobody but themselves . . . she'll allow you into her chaos, but she'll also show you her magic.”
New York City is a beautiful bitch dipped in glitter, giving you the finger while walking the runway in her Louboutins.
“Why did you do that?” “Because I wanted to kiss you.”
“Sometimes we hold so tightly to the hurt from the past that we miss the happiness ahead, and if there is one thing we deserve, Lotus, it’s happiness wherever we can find it.”
“One man’s rational is another man’s cowardice.”
“No, but I think faith, real faith, requires bravery.
“I need simple,” I repeat. “But I want you.”
“because MiMi gave it to you.”
“What if she gave me to you?”
you didn’t hurt me,”
“You healed me.”
The words are from the Song of Solomon, but the truth of them, it’s his. It’s mine, too. “I have found the one whom my soul loves,” he quotes.
“My beloved is mine and I am his,”
“Kenan, I’m yours.”
“Of course, you aren’t afraid of the storm,” MiMi had said with a smile. “You are the storm.”
We stare at one another across centuries, across continents, across time and space, and I actually believe that I would have found him anywhere. There is no place, no spot on the continuum of time that could have hidden this man from me.
In the shadow of the place I thought was safe, I realize it’s not a tree, a city, or a particular place where I find safety. It’s in Kenan’s arms, in the harbor of his love. That’s the safest place I’ve ever known.
