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Because sometimes the things that cut closest to your heart deserve the weight of being last.
But a heart can grieve in silence, so I sink to my knees beside Corian’s body and allow the tears to come.
We sow the seeds of Infinite Destiny for our children so that they may rule from this earth to the stars.
I’m going to find a way to walk through life with courage seared into my
I can feel his emptiness in the air around me, and the reminder every morning sends such a sharp pain through my chest that I want to curl back into my bed and drift off into oblivion, to lie here and never wake, to stay and stay until death comes to claim me too.
Adena had been close with Corian too, but the way she copes with his death is to drown herself behind her meticulous habits, nitpicking everything as if she could organize the grief out of her system.
It’s not our home. But you try your best to take your home with you, even if it’s a shack in the middle of a desperate place.
“Aren’t we all always searching for someone to understand us?
“Visit me when you return from the warfront. You will tell me all your stories.” It’s her way of making me promise to return home alive and safe, a promise we both know I can never be sure to keep. But I bow my head anyway. The truth is, for the past few weeks, when I’ve struggled to find a reason to get up every morning, I think of my mother. I think of this tiny home. And I always push myself out of bed. “I will, Ma,” I reply.
Our pasts matter because they created us, helped mold us into who we are.”
He gives me a suspicious frown. “You want to dig into my life by holding out pieces of your own.”
the only way for us to keep pace with the wicked is to do what they do, but better.”
It is always the gentle ones I fear for the most, those willing to bare their hearts, who grieve for others and feel happy for others’ happiness.
“Sometimes a crime is an act of heroism,” my mother answers quietly. She looks at me as she says it, and I know she is telling me she loves me.
It takes another long silence before he finally adds, “They’re my family, Adena.” “So? Your family can also be the poison in your life.”
