R.K. Lilley

It just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised.

My past has shaped me, that's true of anyone.

I wondered how my heart could be both light with happiness and heavy with love at the same time.

You were wrong, Gram," I said softly, tone emotionless because I was resigned to the awful, lonely truth of it. "Love doesn't save our souls. It kills them.

He's the best I ever had. And the worst thing that ever happened to me.

Love is like that. It's like a wildfire in my blood.

I had fallen in love with a perfect lie.

I also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitches

You can call me Grandpa, if that does it for you.

I loved your eyes first,_ I told him , repeating his words from a few weeks ago back to him, because it was true, and because we were two halves of a whole__e had been all along, and he__ been so clever to know it right away. I used to think it was insanity, but now I was beginning to think that it was pure brilliance. __ see it, too, James. I see the other half of my soul in you.

There's no room in perfection for insecurity.

Careful, Love. You can't offer a starving man a feast and expect him not to take you up on it.

You__e insane,_ I told him, and stood up to dress.He hugged me from behind, pressing hard against me, rubbing his smooth chest along my back. He spoke into my ear, __nsane for you, my love.

He was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other__ suffering, and wedidn__ now.

I feel like real love should take time, or at least, more time than this. I've been trying to make my head rule my actions, when my heart has so obviously taken over, but I feel how I feel, and I know it's not going away.

Is it romantic or psychotic when I say I'll never let you leave me?

I don't feel alone with you. I feel like I have a family and a home again. You're my home. All of the dark shadows seem to disappear when we're together.

I told you that I needed you. But now I need you to survive. Forever. I won__ live through this without you, and I__ selfish for telling you that, but it__ the truth. You__e my rock, Danika. I can__ ever lose you, or I__l follow Jared, I know I will.