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magic comes in two forms. Those with powers can usually either manipulate people or manipulate the world. But I can do both and create lifelike glamours that feel far more real than ordinary illusions. I can make it rain, and you wouldn’t just see the rain, you’d
feel it soaking your clothes and your skin. You’d feel it all the way down to your bones if I wanted you to.
No one knew how to make her dream or wonder or feel as much as Legend. But no one knew how to break her like Legend did, either. She still wasn’t entirely over the last heartbreak, and if he did it again, she feared she’d never get over it.
Immortals cannot love. Love is poison to us. Love and immortality cannot coexist. On very rare occasions we come across humans who tempt us to love. … If an immortal feels true love for even a minute, they become human for that minute. If the feeling lasts too long, their mortality becomes permanent.
‘But I don’t want to feel differently. I want to feel love in its every form. I used to be so scared of it, but now I think love is another type of magic. It makes everything brighter, it makes people who have it stronger, it breaks rules that aren’t supposed to exist, it’s infinitely valuable. I can’t imagine my life without it. And if you felt any love in your heart, you would understand.’
I choose you, Julian, and I promise I will always choose you, and I will always love you. I will love you with every bone in my body, so that even after my heart stops beating, a part of me will remain to forever love you.’
‘Love is messy. It’s not easily controlled. But that’s what makes it so powerful. It’s unbridled passion. It’s caring about someone else’s life more than you care about your own.
She didn’t and doesn’t need you to save her. She needs to save you.’
‘Most of my life, I’ve romanticized death. I used to love the idea of something being so tremendous that it was worth dying for. But I was wrong. I think the most magnificent things are worth living for.’
She looked the way Love might have looked if Love looked in a mirror, infectiously happy and radiantly beautiful.
She cried for the horrors he had been, and she cried for the wonders that he could have been instead.
‘This is my choice, and I choose you, Donatella. I don’t need immortality. You’re my forever.’
Legend did not believe in endings. For most of his immortal life, he believed his world would come crashing down if he fell in love and became human. Instead, his world had become more precious, particularly the pieces involving her. He stifled a laugh as he read her letter again. Tella wouldn’t like it if she knew he was laughing, but she was one of the rare things he found funny. It was one of the many reasons he loved her.
