It’s our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
They’d never fade, even in the afterlight of all of this.
You wanna go build some shelves with me?
You cannot fathom the distance I would travel for you.
I love you. With my whole heart. My whole life, however long I’m lucky enough to get, nothing will change for me.
Thing is, though, fear is worthless. It stops you when you need to keep moving most. And it only exists inside of your head.
This whole time, from the moment we met, he’d been waiting for me to realize he’d known me all along, and he had never once wanted me to change.
Are you sure this isn’t a nightmare?” he asked quietly. “And that we won’t just wake up?” I stared ahead at the road, the way the dust blowing in from the desert covered it with a faint golden sheen even as gray clouds began to gather over us. “yes,” i said after some time. Because dreamers always wake up and leave their monsters behind.
There is one side. That is the side of friendship and trust and love and that is the side that everyone should be on, and I am refusing to acknowledge that any other side could exist.
I don’t care,” I said, leaning my head back against the seat. “Can we just get lost and see where that lands us?
And the open road rolled out in front of us.
Good ideas had in the dark were generally best left there.
In the whole course of history, war had always fallen on the shoulders of the young.
It matters not who you love, but only the quality of such a love. A flower is no less beautiful because it does not bloom in the expected form. Because it lasts an hour, and not days.
The only way out is through.
They don’t burn, do they? Not like us.
She didn’t need a protector or a rescuer. But she did need him.
There are rules, but rules may be rewritten if only one hand holds the ink.
Love was selfish, wasn’t it? It made honest men want things they had no right to. It cocooned one from the rest of the world, erased time itself, knocked away reason. It made you live in defiance of the inevitable. It made you want another’s mind, body; it made you feel as if you deserved to own their heart, and carve out a place in it.
Seat belts. Welcome to Psi Services. I’m Zach and I’ll be your driver on this epic quest to freedom. If you look out your windows – but, obviously, don’t because Ruby just told you not to – you can give Nevada the finger as we pull away.