A feeling can't kill you.
The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.
Kettle thingies. Yum.
Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.
There is no choice for him but to believe. He has nothing left to give in offering.
His three wives are huddled together on the bare mattress, one of them dying; when we're together, we form an alliance he can't touch. He's scared to even try.