Intersect (Parallel, #2)
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“It’s not about us,” I gasp, sitting up. “It’s about the baby. In that dream I always have of us in the hospital? We’re there because I’m delivering, and that’s when she stops us. She doesn’t want us to have the baby.”
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“No, it’s worked out fucking terribly. So I say if something you want scares the hell out of you, go for it. Because the other way isn’t working.”
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“I don’t know what you’re thinking,” he says, “but if these elevators weren’t monitored by security I’d make you demonstrate every one of them.”
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“I mean, you deserve to have a life after I’m gone. But…” “It may have escaped your attention,” he says, voice low with fury. “But I am crazy about you. I’m so crazy about you I seem to care very little about everything that mattered a month ago. Not my reputation. Not my job. Not my future. All that exists for me is the time we have left, and after that, honestly, I can’t imagine wanting to go on.”
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“Well, my mother’s still alive and they never found your father’s mother after she disappeared, so I assume that means they didn’t find a ring either.”
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“I hope you know what you’re doing. It’s a hard life.” “Time traveling?” He shakes his head, staring at the rope in his weathered hands. “No,” he says. “Being the one who has to stay behind.”
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Which means my grandfather and I have had this conversation before.
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I don’t care about the years after you’re gone. I’m not even sure I want those years. I just want the time you have left, every fucking minute of it.”
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It feels like whoever’s changing your life has stolen something from me. I should have taken you to Prom. I should have been your first kiss, your first everything, and I fucking hate that I wasn’t.”
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“I am not fucking leaving you.” “But—” “Ask me a thousand times and the answer will still be no.”
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“I’m so in love with you I can’t even breathe when I imagine you not here, and I’ll never be able to live with myself if I don’t at least try to find her. So don’t ask it of me.”
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“Souhaitez-vous que je vous lise les lignes de la main?”
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“If I need something from her, killing her wouldn’t do me any good, would it?” She smiles. “Au contraire. I think killing her would solve everything.”
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“Full disclosure,” he says, with a heavy sigh, “I’m also trying to get information about my wife. She was pregnant when she got lost. I don’t know where she went. I don’t know how far back she went. I just keeping hoping that…if I find a time traveler with our DNA, it might mean our child survived. It might even mean she stayed there and led a happy life.”
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“In my whole life it’s only been you. You’re the only person I’ve ever been in love with, and tonight when I contemplated the idea of life without you, I finally got what Grosbaum must have gone through, because I’d have waited forever just hoping you were coming back.”
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“Marry me,” Nick says. People around us are listening, so his voice drops to add, “in this lifetime and any others we find ourselves in.”
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“Yes,” I whisper. “In this lifetime and all the other ones, I will only want you.”
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“Then what about Rose?” he argues. “She told us everything and time traveled in front of us more than once.”