Our relationship couldn't continue to balance, as it did, on the point of a knife. We would fall off one edge or the other, depending entirely upon his decision, or his instincts. My decision was made, made before I'd ever consciously chosen, and I was committed to seeing it through. Because there was nothing more terrifying to me, more excruciating, than the thought of turning away from him. It was an impossibility.
Stephenie MeyerYou make your own kinds of mistakes, and Iโm sure youโll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.
Stephenie MeyerI was like a lost moonโmy planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolationโthat continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws of gravity.
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