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but it felt spectacularly bigger, the way a word feels bigger with an exclamation point tacked onto it.
The future knows what things we desire, unless there is something greater in our path that chases us away.”
Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.”
Not quite sure how far she’d already fallen, she imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.
Every person gets one impossible wish, if the person wants something more than anything, and they can find a bit of magic to help them along.
‘I thought you were familiar with fortune-telling. Every story has four parts – the beginning, the middle, the almost-ending, and the true ending. Your future is not complete until you flip over the fourth and reveal the true ending.’
‘If my mother had been a kinder or better person, I might have turned out good, and everyone knows how boring it is to be good.’
Tella claimed she didn’t want love – she liked to say love trapped and controlled and ripped hearts apart. But the truth was she also knew love healed and held people together, and deep down she wanted it more than anything.
‘I think I’d like you even if you were the villain.’ She smiled against his lips. ‘Maybe I’d like you even if you were a hero.’ ‘But I’m not the hero,’ he reminded her. ‘Then perhaps I’m here to save you.’
‘Not everyone gets a true ending. There are two types of endings because most people give up at the part of the story where things are the worst, where the situation feels hopeless. But that’s when hope is needed most. Only those who persevere can find their true ending.’
If there had been a clock in the room, it would have stopped. Occasionally, there are minutes that get extra seconds. Moments so precious the universe stretches to make additional room for them,
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.’
He’d never be perfect; he’d told her that. But she didn’t want perfect – she only wanted him.
‘You’re the same as you’ve always been, we just know more about you now. But it doesn’t change you – not unless you let it. And this news doesn’t change us, either. Even if we didn’t share any blood at all, I would still call you my sister and I would battle anyone who tried to say it wasn’t true. You are my family, Scarlett. Who your birth father is doesn’t change that.’
‘A careful girl wouldn’t say she loved me.’ ‘You’re wrong. I don’t think my heart could be safer than in your hands.’
‘I don’t want you to lie. I just wish you had something true to say that I wanted to hear.’
Dante had helped her forget, but Legend had taught her how to dream again, and she loved all the dazzling dreams they shared and the exquisite lies he told with his illusions.
‘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.’
no one has ever looked at me the way you did when you said those words just now and – you deserve to have someone who will look at you that way. You deserve someone who can love you, someone really worth living for, rather than an immortal who only wants to possess you.’
