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I’d never known it was possible to love as he did— with complete devotion yet devoid of promises.

Ann Aguirre

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Ann Aguirre
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 27
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
the United States of America
Ellen Connor
Ava Gray
Complete
Promise
Possible
Known
Never
Love
Devoid
Promises
Devotion

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He would bear scars because of me, as I carried them for him.
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If I ever win you, he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.
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We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.
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I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.
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Are you afraid of falling, baby? No, I’m afraid of landing. [He’s laughing, and I’m smiling.] Stupid idiot smile, don’t you know what comes next?
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Before he bent his head, I knew what he was going to do. Touch his lips to mine. Oh, and I wanted him to... I stilled, hardly daring to breathe. The old refrain of cant and shouldn't sank beneath the weight of new worlds like please and yes.
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You don’t need to be afraid of falling // when there’s someone around to catch you.
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I always have someplace else I’d rather be, even if I don’t know where that is, yet.
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Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.
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Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.
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