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She wanted to say I don’t believe you. She wanted to say thank you. She wanted to say tell me more about who I am because I don’t know anymore.
She had resolved not to believe in such things anymore. What had gone wrong? Had she lived in the unreal world so long it was impossible to pull herself out of it? Had she spent so long believing the stories, the lies, that her mind now rejected the truth?
“They’re cruel. They’ll be cruel to you, too.” “It doesn’t matter. I’m not afraid to care about you, Effy.”
“Love is terrible, isn’t it?” Ianto said, over the sound of the churning water below. “That’s why the one line became so famous. ‘I will love you to ruination.’ I think we all understand what it’s like to be wrecked by it. Even me.”
The weight of a memory is one thing. You get very used to swimming with it dragging you down. Once it’s loosed, you hardly know what to do with your body.
“The Fairy King was all of them,” said Angharad. “Every wanting man has that same wound he can use to slip in.
