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The worst dreams are the ones that take you outside of your mind. The ones that feel so real, you question if everything you experienced indeed happened.
But strange things happen in dreams. Impossible things. Stuff that when you think about it the next morning makes you laugh and wonder why that cycled into your dream to begin with.
What’s happening to me right now is unimaginable. Time changes. People die and are born every second. But what stands the test of time is the world around us.
Then Étienne says, “Don’t ever dance like that again.” I bite my tongue because I want so badly to tell him to shut the hell up and not tell me what to do. But Étienne wants that. He wants a fight; he lost control, and so did I. And the truth is, neither of us would’ve stopped if it weren’t for the servants in the hall. I ignore his words and continue toward the doors. “Unless it’s with me.”
Just know that weak is the man who hurts a woman.”
I firmly believe that lying is sometimes a necessary evil. It will eat at you, but in the end, you know you’re doing it to protect the people you care about.
His hands curl tightly around my shoulders. “Because every day you stay here, the further I fall for you.” With my eyes on his and my heart pounding, I say, “I’d stay here.”
“Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.” ―Søren Kierkegaard
My mom once told me to find a man who gazes at me as though I’m the sun, moon, and stars. But what she failed to tell me was how to move on from a love that spans decades.
I BELIEVE THERE are many ways to lose your mind. But nothing consistently drives people to the brink of madness like love. That emotion is a sure-fire way to fuck up your heart. It makes you do things you would never think of doing.
Because no matter how close I am to someone, the chances of them trusting me are incredibly low.
Impossible! But if I’ve learned anything from my journey through time, it’s that nothing is impossible and everything is a lie.
The heart is a funny thing. It pumps blood through your body, but it does so much more than that. Hearts can lie, can pull the wool over your eyes. But I know I’m doing the right thing by listening to mine.
“No matter what happens tomorrow, I love you forever,” I say. Étienne squeezes my hand and kisses the crown of my head. “I know. Nothin’ changes between us. You’re my surviving trace.”
Greed can do many things to people. Woven with jealousy, it can drive a sane person mad.
In the instant you fall in love with someone, you feel a tremor of fear because you know that this love has the potential to grow into something all-powerful. Something bigger than the both of you. You realize that you’d fight for them. Move the heavens and the earth. You’d even kill.
