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“No matter how perilous the journey, it’s never over for true soul mates. Who doesn’t want a connection that burns forever, despite distance, time, and curses?”
Alone doesn’t care that I don’t shave my legs in the winter. Alone never gets disappointed by me.” Eva sighed. “It’s the best relationship I’ve ever been in.”
“I like being single,” Eva continued quietly. “I don’t want anyone to have to really see me.”
“Listen, caring about things don’t make you soft. It makes you alive.”
Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down. The power and magic born in that struggle? It’s so terrifying to men that we invented reasons to burn y’all at the stake, just to keep our dicks hard.”
“The burden isn’t on me to explain it, Rich. The burden’s on y’all to fix it. Good luck.”
“One thing,” she whispered, her lips by his jaw. She didn’t want anyone to overhear. “Before I forget.”
“What’s that?”
“Stop writing ab...
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In a voice both raspy and low, and so, so familiar, Shane said, “You first.”
“So,” began Eva. “You’ve read my whole series.”
“Every line.” He popped a piece of bread into his mouth. “You’ve read mine, too.”
“With a highl...
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“I know too much,” he said, his words weighted with old pain. The kind that makes a home on the fringes of your thoughts forever.
“If you have the opportunity to make a moment meaningful, why not take it?”
“I never realized I was lonely,” he said. “Until I met you and I wasn’t anymore.”
That morning, when I woke up and you…you weren’t there. I had to teach myself how to breathe again, in a world without you in it. Do you get that?”
I stayed alive for you. But you killed me, anyway.”
no matter where or how far you went, you couldn’t outrun yourself.
“I love you,” said Shane. “Dramatically, violently, and forever.”
“I’ve always loved you,” he whispered.
“What a coincidence,” she whispered back. “I’ve always loved you, too.”
“Destigmatizing male vulnerability is the first step toward rebuilding the absolute ruin that straight men have left the world in.”
this girl could heal the world i’m crying
Maybe we work better as a flashback.”
Women are expected to absorb traumas both subtle and loud and move on. Shoulder the weight of the world. But when the world fucks with us, the worst thing we can do is bury it. Embracing it makes us strong enough to fuck the world right back.
“I’ve been roaming around forever, and I’ve never been anywhere I wasn’t itching to leave.”
estp mantra
And maybe that was what real, adult love was. Being fearless enough to hold each other close no matter how catastrophic the world became. Loving each other with enough ferocity to quell the fears of the past. Just fucking being there.
Shane cupped her face in his hands. “It never ends, does it? Loving you never ends. Whether you’re Genevieve or Eva. Whether I lose you for years or wake up to your face every morning. I love you. You’re my home. And I want you forever.”
