serendipity.

“Like any girl, I pulled myself into shreds to test the rumor that something with blood like mine could be halved and still whole. And what did I learn?”

“You could ask him to kill for you & he would, though you never do because you like how he instinctively moves to protect you without you saying anything.”

“Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

person: what do you want to be when you grow up?

“darling, i don’t want you to love me. / i want you to be terrified.”

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell…”

“I’ve seen you at your worst and I still think you’re the best.”

“If I’m honest? You scare me. You are the origin of my pain, and yet my only salvation.”

“I love you, selflessly. From afar, through tears, and in my loneliness.”

“She was like some swan princess who enchants one’s imagination in childhood, unashamedly romantic.”

“But why do I dream of a terrible monster waiting for me, only for me?”