月下美人

There may never be another person in this world who will cherish me the way you have. To me, you are a special and utterly unique presence. These are true, certain, and unalterable facts.

But the absurd thing about humanity is that we only feel pain when we're on the receiving end.

Perhaps, Samantha, you are lost in more ways than one?

Already she had forgiven him this oversight, because what is love but an endless series of forgivenesses, of choosing what to remember and what hurts too much to hold.

I saw differently when I looked with your eyes. I walked differently when I walked with your body.

There are certain memories that remain inviolate to the ravages of time. And to those of suffering. It is not true that everything is colored by time and suffering. It is not true that they bring everything to ruin.

A nameless sadness, the fading away of the birds. The fading away of the animals. How lonely it will be here, when it’s just us.

Who would wish for this—for love that burns only in the dark?

I cannot exorcise you from my mind. I have tried—but I think of you always. In sleeping, in waking, and especially in dreaming.

Does he remember it the same way I do? Cicadas in the grass and aloe on my fingertips. Ice cream melting over my knuckles, loose pebbles beneath my feet. Laughing so hard it hurt, the sky so bright above our heads I felt like I could put the stars in my pocket.

With my words on his tongue, and the hum of the spellsong hanging thick in the air between us, I nearly found him beautiful.

"Memory betrays most people ... It fades, leaving them with dull, soft impressions of a life more like a dream than history."

If it is our bodies that should one day be washed up onshore then I hope they will do so together.

As you did it to the strangest of my sisters you did it to me

Read the lines on your palms. Ask the stars; ask the dead. Fortune tellers know thou shalt relish a witch to live.

Wet your hair with drops of the night crack, crack praise the monsters, meet me where the fire never goes out.