“Of course I love you. I’ve always loved you,” he said, hands tightening on the steering wheel.
She shook her head and the downtown city lights sparked as stars in her eyes. “I don’t mean a routine love. I mean the love where you would stay up to write paragraphs about love for me to wake up to and when wiping my tears wasn’t a chore and when you pressed your lips to mine not due to obligation, but due to the feeling of withdrawal. I want the love that made you think I held the stars in fingertips and the moon in my hands and galaxies in my mind.”
”-i’ve been around long enough to know that love doesn’t outlive people people outlive love.
~j (reeject)