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21 " I know just how he feels that it’s come to this. Sometimes, love isn’t enough, even when it’s all you have. "
― Ann Aguirre , Aftermath (Sirantha Jax, #5)
22 " Right now, I wish I’d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I don’t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leaving—that you love me, but you don’t need me. You don’t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now. "
23 " I always have someplace else I’d rather be, even if I don’t know where that is, yet. "
24 " I know you have bad news,” I say softly. “I’m ready for it.”But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down. "
25 " I have had passionate kisses and fierce ones, kisses so sweet they tasted like pure honey and kisses that cut like knives, but until this moment, I’ve never had one that said both hello and good-bye. "
26 " I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming. "
27 " They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so if you don’t deal with the remains, you can never deal with the memories. That might be true; we may have walked in their dust down on Venice Minor, but it’s not the same as a proper good-bye. "
28 " But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become. "
29 " There’s nothing he can do here for me, but I hate that he left. "
30 " That she could smile while I hurt in ways I could not understand—it broke something in me. I did not understand the heart of her, then. She is made of brightness, too much for sorrow. Such a glad spirit—I am humbled now that she shared it with me. "
31 " He doesn’t have the words, so he does practical things instead. "
32 " It’s always been him saving me . . . and I’m not used to that. "
33 " You’re clumsy. But it can’t be helped. You are who you are.It feels like the answer to a question I feared asking, like I’ve been searching every galaxy for this message. You are who you are. "
34 " Are you afraid of falling, baby?No, I’m afraid of landing.Oh, Mary, so am I. "
35 " It doesn’t work that way. Each love is unique. Special. Giving to one never takes away from another.” Those might be the wisest words I’ve ever heard. "
36 " The human heart defies such boundaries sometimes. It just does what it’s meant to do, and gives love where it receives it. Sometimes "
37 " Love isn’t finite; it’s not miserly and small. "
38 " No doubt. I’m not the same woman he fell in love with, turns ago, but love is delightfully tensile—and the best kind pulls and stretches to accommodate new growth. "
39 " Dead women get monuments; live ones get trials. "
40 " Too bad I survived it. Dead women get monuments; live ones get trials. "