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“You think you are alone, Aefe, in this body. But there is life everywhere. In blood and flesh. In breath. In a heartbeat.”
There was no single moment when everything changed. No single before and after. There was just… life. A million decisions and a million consequences.
Once I’d thought that love was the sum of its parts, the result of a collection of traits and experiences, like a structure steadily built from bricks layered over bricks. If you collect enough of them, there is love. But that had been a child’s view of the world. The bricks were important, but what they created was more than just a pile of stones. It was the difference between a house and a home. If the building burns down, something is still there that makes it home.
If you ever have to guess what I want, or what is best for me, it is you. Alright? I have made that decision already. I do not make it lightly. Don’t disrespect that by claiming that you know better for me than I do. I have made bad decisions before. But you are not, never have been, and never will be one of them. It is always you.”
We all feel the same things, and we will still die trying to kill each other for it.”
I thought my body was a prison. Then I realized that it could be a tool. And now I realized that it could allow me to experience things—useless, wonderful things—that
Grief was not a virus to be cured and expelled. It was a chronic condition that would shadow him forever.
they love you as a figurehead. It’s different to be loved as a person.
That stories, even those of everyday people, were held in such high regard.”
“I know how greedy tragedy is. It consumes everything. It consumes hope; it consumes faith.
“Do not fear death, my daughter. We all walk with one foot in each world. There is beauty in impermanence. And what sad lives we would live, if we never loved anything we would lose.”
“A lifetime of learning has taught me the only constant is that nothing ever truly ends.”
I love you did not say enough. I love you did not say, thank you for being my home. I love you did not say, thank you for being my future.
