“Sometimes there is more strength in tears than in austerity.” I laughed limply. “How do you always know what to say? Is there some kind of class for that?” His lips twitched. “It’s my natural-born charm. But it’s also this. Whatever you and I are made of, it’s the same. You don’t have to be good with me, right or true in any sense, but especially the conventional. You can be your worst self with me, because Elena, it’s the contradictory nature of your soul that intoxicates me.”
