Besotted

All I know is when he first kissed me a lifetime ago, he didn`t kiss my lips, he kissed my soul.

„Are you asking me to marry you?‟
„Nope.‟
„Oh.‟

„Sometimes we are given the illusion of choice. Give a man dying of thirst in a desert a glass of water and tell him it`s his choice. Drink or leave it. Is that really a choice, Lana?‟

„The princess is not locked up because she is bad. The princess is locked up because she is precious beyond words, and everyone wants a piece of her.‟

„My love, my love, if you are still living and I am not, then I will haunt you until your dying day.‟

„It`s love. The loved destroys the thing that loves it.‟

„Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.‟

„Hmmnnn… Your son is giving trouble.‟
„What kind of trouble?‟
„He doesn`t want to sleep. He thinks he should be allowed to climb through the window, on to the balcony, and probably over it.‟

I don`t tell him the truth. Because for a moment I thought I was in love with a monster.
„Because I love you,‟ I say. But that, too, is the truth. I loved him even in that corrosive, soul-destroying moment when I thought he was a monster.

I don‟t tell him the truth. Because for a moment I thought I was in love with a monster.