I had the strange feeling that this world—not just Melanie, but the entire orb of the planet—did not want me, no matter how much I wanted it.
Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you
The bond forged between us was not one that could be broken by absence, distance, or time. And no matter how much more special or beautiful or brilliant or perfect than me he might be, he was as irreversibly altered as I was. As I would always belong to him, so would he always be mine.
It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say. It's not how you look in that body, but the thing you do with it. You are beautiful.
And so the lion fell in love with the lamb鈥?quot; he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word."What a stupid lamb," I sighed."What a sick, masochistic lion.
The way I feel about you will never change. Of course I love you — and there’s nothing you can do about it!
My heart hasn’t beat in almost ninety years, but this was different. It was like my heart was gone...
It’s an extraordinary thing to meet someone who you can bare your soul to and accept you for what you are.
And I knew in that instant, if I’d never really known before, that I was truly, irrevocably in love...
I’d never seen him so completely freed of that carefully cultivated façade. He was both more beautiful...
It’s been almost a century that Edward’s been alone. Now he’s found you. You can’t see the changes...
