I know he would die if you died, Luce

She just wished loving him didn’t always have to be so hard.

There was nothing mean about his voice. In fact it was almost too nice. Like she was too dim to grasp whatever was so obvious to him. Which made her absolutely furious.

I've never asked for a happy ending

The good news is" he paused, carefully choosing his words, "I kissed you, and you're still here.

Please don't worry. I will always come for you. I won't let you go until you understand that." "Then I refuse to understand," she said.

Gorgeous, glowing rays of light...This was what true beauty and goodness looked like-- a spectral, luminescent gathering of beings so pure it hurt to look directly at them, like the most glorious eclipse, or maybe Heaven itself.