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This book is dedicated to all those who are weathering a storm, may you find a sliver of light between the darkest of clouds to forge on towards.
I’ll climb into the stars and drag his soul back out of them if I have to.
he hungered for power so much that it destroyed the only good thing he was ever offered.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
But chances weren’t made by the stars alone. I needed to make my own opportunities,
“He was falling in love with you, and you ripped his heart out,” Gabriel said quietly. “There is no greater pain in this world than that. Believe me. I know. I’ve lived it.”
If you’re hoping for something to happen, you’ll often ignore the bad signs subconsciously and hunt for the answer you want.
“Look, sometimes we want to see the good in people we care about so much that we pretend it’s there, living under all the layers of cruelty. But the fact is, Diego, some people are toxic. And if you keep them in your life, they’ll poison everything good in your world until you end up being just like them. And that’s a far worse fate than going against the grain and making your own path. Even if that means you’re alone.”
If you love someone, truly love them, you’ll bear your soul to them and let them be the keeper of your heart no matter how fragile or damaged it might be. And if they love you then they’ll do everything in their power to keep it safe, to nurture and protect it and heal over all the old wounds.
you’re forgetting that true strength comes from facing down the things you’re most afraid of.
It was a lesson I wished I’d learned in any other way, but it was a valuable lesson all the same.
Prove to her that you deserve her and then climb up into the fucking sky and tear the stars right out of it for her if they still don’t agree.”
“I’d take death over life without you,”
all I was really doing was ignoring the fact that I’d become the monster I’d tried so hard to find in you.”
I guessed she thought the apple didn’t fall that far from the tree. But little did she know, I was in an orchard on the other side of the fucking planet.
