I’m fighting here, with everything I’ve got. Fight for me too.
It’s said that actions speak louder than words,” he went on, “but we still need words. We need to speak and we need to be heard.
If you’re going to worry about anything, Gideon, it should be me. Because I can’t be rational when it comes to you. I’m crazy about you. Literally. I can’t think about a future without you – it freaks me out.
I prefer to spend time with you. You’re the most interesting person I know.
She wasn’t like any woman who’d come before her. Not just because of who she was, but also because of who I was when I was with her.
I would have found Eva eventually. And I would’ve wanted her, given up everything to have her. I would have left you to be with her. The end was inevitable.
Did we choose love, or did we choose ourselves?
He didn’t see in himself what I saw – a generous soul who wanted so much to belong to something greater than himself. He didn’t recognize what a miracle he was. When he didn’t know what to do in a given situation, he let instinct and his heart take over. Despite all he’d been through, he had such an amazing capacity to feel and to love. He’d saved me, in so many ways. I was going to do whatever needed to be done to save him, too.
He loved me so much more than he loved himself. It broke my heart that he’d sell himself short like that. It made it impossible to hold myself back. “You’re everything to me,” I breathed. “I think about you all the time.
Take me. Take all of me. The good and the bad. Everything. Take it all.
I crawled into his lap, sighing happily when he shifted me into a spot that felt made for me. Every peaceful moment we had with each other was treasured. Gideon deserved the respite, and I longed to be that for him. His lips touched my forehead. “You okay, angel mine?” “I’m in your arms. Life doesn’t get better than this.
That compromise means you don’t always have to be the strong one, Gideon. You can do the heavy lifting on occasion, and you can let Eva do it sometimes. Marriage isn’t about whether you’re strong enough as an individual. It’s about how strong you are together and the luxury of taking turns carrying the load.
Gideon brought into my life. The acceptance and the love. The safety. Gideon had given me my freedom back, a life without terror. Giving him vows in return was too simple a repayment for that.
We were addicted to each other.
Sure. You two are whack jobs separately. Together, you’re a goddamn nut house.
I need you to understand that you’ll never have to settle for pieces of me. You shouldn’t be settling at all. You deserve so much better. You could have anyone –.
Don’t hang up. For God’s sake, Eva, we’re married. We’re in love. There’s no shame in that. So what if it’s crazy? It’s us. It’s who we are. You need to come to grips with that.
I’m so in love with Gideon. He’s changed my life in so many ways. He makes me feel beautiful and precious. I know it seems too fast, but he’s the one for me.
You’ve changed my life, Eva. And you did the impossible: you transformed me. I like who I am now. I never thought that would happen.
I think of nothing but you. All day. Every day. Everything I do, I do with you in mind. There’s no room for anyone else.