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1 " As long as we’re both under the same moon, we’ll always find a way to each other. "
― Mia Sheridan , Becoming Calder
2 " Eden, I vow this. My heart is yours. My life is yours. My body is yours. My art, my dreams. You own each and every part of me. "
3 " If I were just a boy, and you were just a girl, I wouldn't kiss you once like you asked." He paused and my heart dropped. Oh. "Eden, I'd kiss you long, and I'd kiss you often. "
4 " If I have to live in Elysium for eternity with someone I don't love, I thought maybe a kiss from you, even just one, would make it bearable. "
5 " Eden, yeah, she was definitely a morning glory: as pretty as a flower, with the strength of a weed. "
6 " She had dared to dream beyond what someone else had ordained her destiny to be, beyond what even the gods had destined. "
7 " I love this. I love you, the feel of you, the smell of you, just you, "
8 " I kissed her with all I had and everything I was worth, which, most likely, wasn't very much right about then. "
9 " I am yours. I've always been yours. I'll be yours here on earth, in Elysium. I'll fight the gods if I have to. I'll stand before them and declare "
10 " I feel your lips on me, Eden. When I close my eyes, when I’m awake. I taste you. You are my first breath, and my last. I feel you. "
11 " You’re mine, Eden. You always have been, from the very first second I saw you.” I nodded. It seemed like the simplest truth the world had ever known. "
12 " Calder kissed me in a way that made me believe I had no only always been his, but I would be his forever. In this life or any other. In his kiss was the promise that wherever he and I existed, we would belong to each other. "
13 " If this is the last piece of heaven I get before I'm dragged down to hell, then I'll gladly take it. "
14 " I’m going to take you away from here, to a place where my bed is your bed, and my home is your home. And in that place, I’ll never be more than an arm’s reach from you. "
15 " There's no sense of satisfaction in something you didn't do anything to achieve, "
16 " It’s my heart that makes me want to deny my so-called destiny.”It’s my heart that wants you to be my destiny. "
17 " The gods created this place for us," I whispered, smiling dreamily. Calder paused, brushing his lips once more across my throat before responding. "Yes." I felt him smile against my skin. "Why do you think they did that?" "So we'd have a place to fall in love. "
18 " I'm going to take it slow this time. We're going to burn every stroke, every touch, and every kiss into our skin so when we're back together, it will only then just be cooling. While we're apart, we'll still be keeping each other warm. "
19 " But of course, life never worked that way. You had to live every minute of the hard part in order to get to the good. "
20 " I had dreams as well. In that moment, right there and then, I admitted to myself that I longed for more for my life and maybe those dreams were beautiful too. Brave. I had always pushed that desire away, ashamed of it, thinking it sinful, selfish.But maybe, just maybe, my own dreams weren’t as sinful as I’d always thought them to be…somehow. "
