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1 " I don’t remember how to breathe without you. "
― A.L. Jackson , A Stone in the Sea (Bleeding Stars, #1)
2 " Where there’s beauty, there’s also pain. "
3 " I guess when you loved someone, you were willing to accept all the pieces and factors and fragments that made them up, the sum of those adding up to the whole, and you were left with no choice but to wholly accept the total of that creation. "
4 " And each time, he slipped a little deeper into my bones. "
5 " My girl.Maybe in another lifetime, if I'd chosen another path, if I'd made a million different choices. "
6 " I wanted someone to look at me the way Shea had. Knowing I had absolutely nothing to give her and still she wanted it all the same. Me. "
7 " Holy shit, I think our boy here has a crush. I do believe the sky is falling. "
8 " That I don’t even know you, and somehow you feel like one of the most significant people to have ever walked into my life? "
9 " Find love and bring it here, "
10 " I wanted to escape into her layers, to skim along the surface, and get lost in the beauty. To feel the shyness. To sink beneath, deeper into that pent-up confusion and dark. "
11 " Every instinct told me I needed to run, that there was something about this beautiful stranger I couldn’t resist. "
12 " The only promise he’d ever made me was the one that he was going to break me. "
13 " To be blinded by her light while she drowned me in her sea of dark. "
14 " I wasn’t supposed to fall in love with you.”... “Yes, you were. "
15 " I lifted my face to the stars that stretched on forever, an eternal canopy that seemed too low yet impossible to touch. "
16 " What are you doing here?” I asked on a shaky breath.He looked to the sky and exhaled heavily, before he leveled his gaze back on me. “The same thing I’m doing every night, Shea. Thinking about you and wondering why the hell I can’t stop. "
17 " I peeked over at Baz who was relaxed back in the high-backed stool, taking me in like it was the most natural thing in the world. Like he was supposed to be looking at me because he couldn’t see anything else. Just like my eyes were continually drawn to his gaze. "
18 " Do you think I like it that you’re the only thing I can think about? That when I close my eyes, what I see is your face? That I don’t even know you, and somehow you feel like one of the most significant people to have ever walked into my life? "
19 " Sebastian and Shea’s story continues in Drowning to Breathe, Summer 2015 To "
20 " You see me, Shea? "
