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“My lover belongs to me and I to him. He says to me: ‘Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; For stern as death is love, relentless as the nether world is devotion; its flames are a blazing fire. Deep waters cannot quench love, nor floods sweep it away.’”
“Love is plenty powerful on its own. What I feel is real. As real as how beautiful the love between you and Lucy is. It is,” he affirmed, when she glanced downward in
“That was the truth I felt upon seeing you together. The only sorrow is for all of us having to pretend and be without the love we want.”
“Even if I could not, I tried running, tried denying what I am. I do not want that life. If I must be seen as a monster, so be it, then I will be a monster against monsters and live my life free. “I will not let you keep me from Draco,” he swore like the most permanent of oaths. “I am not bewitched. I am in love and tired of being told that it’s wrong.”
“It is a beautiful idea—to be reborn. To have another chance at life with one’s dearest love. Coincidence is not evidence, yet here you are, a specimen I never expected to find in the flesh. Perhaps that was you in another life, and Dracula seeks only a reunion with past happiness.
but does not even the loveliest of roses have thorns to protect itself? How am I to survive as I truly am without thorns? And I will be who I am. I will not become a subject to be studied at that asylum prison.
“I wish to show you our new home, walk in the moonlight through more London streets, read to you from every book and sonnet that has touched my cold heart these past centuries, and revel in your company until the world ends.”
“The whole array of the heavens, are we? So, what does that make you and me?” “The stars and moon of course.” “Then you, my love, are the moon, for all that glitters in me revolves around you.”
“All men are mad in some way or another and must choose which demons we fight and which we can live with.”
