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1 " You weren’t just my first love, you were my once in a lifetime. "
― Mia Sheridan , Dane's Storm
2 " I love you,” he repeated. “In this lifetime and in any that follow. I will always love you, Audra. "
3 " I love you … in this lifetime and in any that follow, I will always love you. "
4 " She was still so fucking desirable to me. And I hated it because she wasn’t mine anymore. "
5 " I love you, too. I know now that I never stopped. "
6 " And I’d come to realize that any hope . . . no matter how small, no matter how unlikely, was just that: a wisp of smoke in the misty distance that you headed toward no matter the cost to get there. "
7 " Hope is like a wisp of smoke on the horizon "
8 " didn’t love you that intensely because you were my first love. It wasn’t that. I know that now. You weren’t just my first love. You were my once-in-a-lifetime. "
9 " This woman in my arms, who I knew I loved with all my heart and soul—was finally, finally trusting me with her deepest pain. "
10 " You were mine, even then. Before I ever met you. "
11 " It’s like I have a whole world of thoughts and feelings and . . . dreams on the inside, but everything around me has always been in black and white. Muted somehow. "
12 " Oh God, I could handle anger, sadness, but what was I supposed to do when the mention of his name still felt like a kind of drowning? "
13 " Her lips, still wet from his kiss, tipped up and she stared into his eyes, amazed when she saw his gaze was filled with the same wonder she felt inside. And suddenly, the entire world burst into vivid, glorious color. "
14 " Kissing her had felt like . . . coming downstairs on Christmas morning: thrilling and calming all at once. Joyful. "
15 " I couldn’t live watching the fire in your eyes slowly fade to ash. "
16 " He was here now. She had met him. No act of fate had stolen him from her before she’d had a chance to love him. Before he’d filled her life with color. "
17 " It’s like I have a whole world of thoughts and feelings and . . . dreams on the inside, but everything around me has always been in black and white. Muted somehow.” She gathered her strength, her heartbeat thrumming against her ribs. “Until you. "
18 " The magnetism I felt toward Audra seemed rooted to my bones. Threaded to the fabric of who I was. I responded to her on some primal level, and I had from the first moment I’d laid eyes on her. "
19 " I vowed to love you for life, and I meant it with my whole damn heart. I’m just so fucking sorry that I didn’t love you enough when you needed it most. "
20 " Hope was a funny thing—it didn’t rely on evidence to exist. And I guessed that was sort of the whole point. "
