We used our minds like weapons clenched tightly in our fists, struggling to return them back to their holsters without injuring ourselves in the process.
Ugh.” Cole rolled his eyes, gave a small laugh. “In a move straight out of Lee’s playbook, I rolled over in bed this morning and hit the dresser. Already killing it this morning.
What a privilege it was to never feel like you had to take stock of your surroundings, or gauge everyone’s reactions to the color of your skin.
I love you.” For whatever small comfort it was worth, he would have the truth between them now. “Most desperately. Bloody inconvenient, that.
He would not surrender to the disaster of loving her.
Revolutions are won with blood, not words.
This was the danger, the seduction of time travel, she realized – it was the opportunity, the freedom of a thousand possibilities of where to live and how to start over. It was the beauty open to you in your life if you only stopped for a moment to look.
The you that you were then, who you are now, who you’ll be,” he began quietly, as if sensing my thoughts, “I love you. With my whole heart. My whole life, however long I’m lucky enough to get, nothing will change for me.
Darlin’, if it were a choice between you and a hundred of Gray’s finest, I’d pick you every time.
Don’t go... where I can’t follow, please, please, not again...
We are, all of us, on our own journeys.
But she wondered if, in moving outside of the natural flow of time, they had forgotten the most crucial point of life – that it wasn’t meant to be lived for the past, or even the future, but for each present moment.
We will move forward as one, and in time, rise like sparks beyond the night.
You do have a choice, you know,” Etta told her after a moment. “There is always a choice.
Because one moment in life does not define a person,” Li Min said. “Without mistakes and misjudgments we would stagnate. It is no shameful thing to be beaten when outnumbered, not when you were brave enough to try. Nor is a scar or injury something to despair over, for it is a mark that you were strong enough to survive.
Is this how you got around before?” Vida wondered aloud. “It is a miracle you dumbasses survived.
Because,” I said finally, “in the end, she couldn’t leave her family behind.
Nicholas felt a rueful smile spread across his face. And a curse be on him for it, because now he knew her. She’d shown him her mind, and she’d opened up her heart, and now he knew the taste of her tears. And he was wrecked.
I was coming to see the heavier your heart got, the strongest you had to be to keep carrying it around.
I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.