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“A promise is not a kiss in the wind, to be thrown about without care,” I murmured to myself. “It is a piece of yourself that is given away and will not return until your pledge is fulfilled.”
“Yet you act as though he’s the one who gave you a piece of his heart. As if he saved you from drowning in the Sacred Lake.”
“So,” Seryu spoke, more quietly than I’d ever heard him before. “Do you think you could try…to carve a place in your heart for me?”
“What I lack in beauty, I make up for in strength of soul,”
In a kingdom where time was eternal, how ironic was it that mine was running out?
“You’d do well to remember this: your heart is your home. Until you understand that, you belong nowhere.”
“Then I’ll have to find you when you’re reborn—before your strands have time to knot with his again.”
“We can’t always protect those we love by shutting them out.
“Surround yourself with those who’ll love you always,” I began, “through your mistakes and your faults. Make a family that will find you more beautiful every day, even when your hair is white with age. Be the light that makes someone’s lantern shine.”
“Your fate is bound to mine now,” I whispered, my lips against his. “Your heart is my own, and where you are is my home. Whatever we face, we face it together.”
“Your mother was stubborn, like you, and often impertinent, like you. But she always considered others before herself. When she fell ill, I swore never to marry again. She wouldn’t hear of it. She wanted you to grow up with a mother. Even if it meant you’d forget her.”
‘The fractures in our hearts will never heal,’ she said. ‘But I seek to make mine whole again. It is not a lover or even a husband who can do that, but a family. Let us be family for one another.’
‘If you wanted to be told you were beautiful, you would hide your scar. But you don’t. It tells your story, a story that’s meant only for those worthy of hearing it.’ ”
“She could see the light in others, whereas they saw only the darkness in her. That was her greatest pain.”
