catriona
@marchand
c2 seviye reading slump
"would you be married to someone ordinary? like ali would have been?"
"no."
"why not?"
"because that was... her thing. she said people like her and me couldn't be with each other, because you can't both be broken and crazy. you need to have one of you who's ordinary."
"but you never found anyone?"
"i never looked."
"was ali your first love?"
"my last."
Hangi tür kitapları seviyorsun?
🔎 Polisiye
💕 Romantik
🚀 Bilim Kurgu
🏰 Fantastik
📖 Klasik
🧠 Kişisel Gelişim
🏛️ Tarih
😱 Gerilim
"i... i just wanted to hear the end of all the stories about you. but now i don't even know if i want that!"
"why not?"
"because it doesn't feel like there are going to be any happy endings at all!"
"you are the happy ending."
"what?"
"kimkim gave you the painting because he saw you paint. you're the happy ending to his story. the life you live from now on. eveything you paint."
"i'm sorry i stayed silent. i'm sorry i was a coward."
"you should say the same thing to kimkim. before it's too late. soon he'll go far away from here, and i hope to hell that he never comes back..."
kimkim's father eyebrows jumped for a moment at that, then he blushed, he knew his own son so little that he didn't even know his friends called him "kimkim."
"time's such a damn thief, you don't notice what it's stealing from you."
"they can just let it happen. because obviously they haven't seen anything, they haven't heard anything, they just had a feeling. and you don't call the damn police for that, because what the hell are the police going to do about your feeling? so when i came home and realized what had happened, i just remember that i... i lay down on the floor beside her and held her hands. and i had never felt like that before..."