01UndatedI told you that I needed you. But now I need you to survive. Forever. I won’t live through this without you, and I’m selfish for telling you that, but it’s the truth. You’re my rock, Danika. I can’t ever lose you, or I’ll follow Jared, I know I will.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
02UndatedYou 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.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
03UndatedI wondered how my heart could be both light with happiness and heavy with love at the same time.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
05UndatedIt just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
07UndatedYou put your soul into those paintings, and nothing in this world is more beautiful to me than that soul of yours.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
08UndatedI 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.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
10UndatedI 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.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
11UndatedYou’re 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, “Insane for you, my love.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
12UndatedHe was hurting, and I hurt with him. We had never been able to maintain any level of detachment from each other’s suffering, and wedidn’t now.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
13UndatedCareful, Love. You can't offer a starving man a feast and expect him not to take you up on it.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
15UndatedI 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—we had been all along, and he’d 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. “I see it, too, James. I see the other half of my soul in you.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
17UndatedI also found it particularly encouraging that the decent people in his life were now outnumbering the crazy bitchesR.K. Lilley / quote ↗
20UndatedHe's the best I ever had. And the worst thing that ever happened to me.R.K. Lilley / quote ↗
