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Elise Kova
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April 14 - April 29, 2024
If I feel nothing and treasure nothing, then I cannot be hurt. I will be immune to their blows. Once I do, my mind will be clearer.
“Everything we do, all we experience, marks our blood. We are shaped by all we have been, could have been, are, and are not.
Is it necessary to become a monster to kill one?
even if I don’t want to find out because it terrifies me, because it threatens all I’ve ever found comfort in, I must. No matter the cost.
We are two candles, but one flame. We cannot and will not let the other go dark. Not while one of us still burns.
“Every step is progress, even if we can’t see it in the moment.”
For the first time, I have control and I…I don’t know what I want.
Yes, he’s lightning, and I’m tinder. One spark too close and I’ll be done for. I’ll burn away, and all that will be left is this insatiable need to collapse the space between us into nothing.
Your presence here has been the first thing to break the endlessness of this unyielding pain that I have known for my entire life.
You haunt me every moment I’m not touching you.”
“How do we free ourselves from this torment?” “I don’t know if I want to be free.” His gaze drops
farther, to my neck. “You might be torture and temptation
incarnate. But you are strength and power. You are damnation and salvation trapped in curves...
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“This world is dark and the night is unyielding; the least we can do is fill it with sweet, forbidden dreams.”
He looks like a god on this mortal plane and I am his offering, ready to be devoured.
“Knowing when to accept help is a sign of strength, not weakness.”
Ruvan stares at me as if I am the source of the moon and stars.
“The world will say I shouldn’t. But I care less and less for what the world thinks. I choose you.”
Who knew there were so many ways to sink into darkness?
