The Rules of Magic

She had loved one person in her lifetime, and for that she would always be grateful.

“We’ve been together since we were kids, sometimes more so and sometimes less so,”

Even after all this time, when he kissed her everything left her mind except for the moment in time they were in, and the heat went through her, slowly, and she fell for him all over again, as if it were the first time.

A man’s situation might change, but the man himself never did.

Isn’t that what love makes you do? Go on trying, even when you’re through, Go on even when you’re made of ash, when there’s nothing inside you but the past.

She gasped because she felt the loss of him even now when he was inside her.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

“You cannot lose someone you love, even if he is no longer beside you,”

Do you understand what urgent means?”
“I do,” the housekeeper responded. “It means you want what you want.”

She didn’t understand that when you truly love someone and they love you in return, you ruin your lives together. That is not a curse, it’s what life is, my girl. We all come to ruin, we turn to dust, but whom we love is the thing that lasts.”