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Real love comes from facing life together, with all its messes and surprises and joys.
A destiny was something that happened to you, that fell upon you like rain no matter how desperately you tried to hide from it. But if you walked toward it with your head held high, then it wasn’t your fate—it was simply your future.
If, if, if. It frightened Beatrice a little, that the world was built on so many small ifs that decided people’s fates.
“I am…forever changed by you,” she added, her voice catching. “I gave you part of my heart a long time ago, and I’ve never gotten it back.” “You don’t need it back.” His voice was rough with unshed tears. “I swear that I’ll keep it safe. Everywhere I go, that part of you will come with me, and I will guard and treasure it. Always.”
“Maybe it’s inevitable that we’re going to be hurt, when we let other people in. Maybe we can’t care deeply for someone without being hurt by them, too,”
“It’s just…it’s easier to believe in things, believe in people, when you read about them in books. They’re so much safer when they’re fictional. The real-life ones…I’m still not sure how to handle them.”
