“I think you’re my hero, she said. Only half-kidding. He stared at her, the picture of incredulity. Most people, he said, think I am a very bad man. She studied his eyes to try to find out if that bothered him. He didn’t seem bothered by them. He seemed discomfited by her. Well, she said at last, maybe you’re a very good dragon.”
“Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.”
“Leo smiled and stroked her hair. We ll both be fine, Marks. We ve just begun our journey...and there s so much we have yet to do. He spoke more softly as he heard her breathing turn even and steady. Rest against my heart. Let me watch over your dreams. And know that tomorrow morning, and every morning after that, you ll awaken next to someone who loves you. Dodger? she mumbled against his chest, and he grinned. No, your confounded ferret will have to stay in his basket. I was referring to myself. Yes, I know. Catherine slid her hand up to his cheek. Only you, she said. Always you.”
“I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.”
“The fear, momentarily paused, returned with full force, and in this frantic, baffled state I ran to him, and leapt into his arms. He seemed surprised at first but soon was squeezing back. It s all right, he soothed. No one s hurt. You re okay. His words sliced through me, and for the first time since he d taken me from school, I knew the truth about us: I could not be okay if he was not okay. Pain, nightmares, fighting- all of it aside- he was a part of me.”
“Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled because the gesture was Carol, and it was Carol she loved and would always love. Oh, in a different way now because she was a different person, and it was like meeting Carol all over again, but it was still Carol and no one else. It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go together, in heaven and in hell. Therese waited. Then as she was about to go to her, Carol saw her, seemed to stare at her incredulously a moment while Therese watched the slow smile growing, before her arm lifted suddenly, her hand waved a quick, eager greeting that Therese had never seen before. Therese walked toward her.”
“AOAN LOVES LOKI.”
“Kiss thy lips and you will see what thou create.”
“I would have gone too but I wanted to come straight back to you.I kept thinking of you, waiting here, all by yourself, not knowing what was going to happen.”
“I promise I ll come back. No matter what happens. Though his voice was only a whisper, there was a fierceness behind it. I believed him completely. I ll wait for you, I told him.”
“And you re not leaving, she said. Promise me. It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to permit the spinning of the earth. What choice did he have? Even if he left her, she would be camped in his heart, an insistent and willful presence. She would match her strides to his on any journey he ever took; she would lie beside him on any bed. Amalie, he said, that s the easiest promise I ve ever had to make.”
“Ketika ekspresi rindu adalah doa Tak ada cinta yang tak mulia”
“I would be consumed by you, she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she felt them fill with tears. You would sap all the energy and all the joy from me. You would put out all the fire of my vitality. Give me a chance to fan the flames of that fire, he said, and to nurture your joy.”
“Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I m tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.”
“When she opened her door, Levi was sitting in the hallway, his legs bent in front of him, hunched forward on his knees. He looked up when she stepped out. “I’m such an idiot,” he said. Cath fell between his knees and hugged him. “I can’t believe I said that,” he said. “I can’t even go nine hours without seeing you.”
“Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart.”
“The poor man’s face twisted into a grimace and he pounded on the bar, protesting loudly. “Oh, you shush,” Kim demanded as she continued to knead his shoulders, jerking his whole body as she worked. “You’ll like this in a minute.”